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Deal May Fail; Super Committee Co-Chair Says Bush Tax Cuts are the “Sticking Divide“
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the Democratic co-chair of the congressional super committee, said this morning on CNN’s State of the Union that the super committee charged with crafting a …
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Occupy Nashville Infiltrates and Disrupts Rumsfeld Fundraiser
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Thursday, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in Nashville …
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Heather Ault: Visualizing 4000 Years of Choice
(Image: ©Heather Ault) Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control their fertility for more than 4000 years. The …
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Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim
Washington - A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a …
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Group in US Hoped for Big Payday in Offer to Help Qaddafi
Libyan rebels transport the bodies of soldiers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi through the streets of Misrata, Libya, April 28, 2011. In April, as the rebels were making gains, a …
Will Poor Nations Suffer Greatly from Climate Change?
My critics have “granted me” the point that developed free market cities have the ability and the capacity to cope with many aspects of climate change. But they …
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Ten Immodest Commandments: Lessons From a Fumbling-and-Bungling Lifetime of Activism
Occupy Wall Street, October 10. (Photo: DoctorTongs) A friend in Canada recently asked me if the Sixties’ protests had any important lessons to pass on to the …
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Lessons We Can Learn From Egypt
Egyptians protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, April 1, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) “Imagine waking up from a 30-year coma.” This …
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Peaceful Occupy Oakland Protester Faces Deportation
An Occupy Oakland protester who was detained during Monday’s police sweep of the movement’s encampment outside City Hall is being held without bail as federal immigration authorities determine whether …