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Maybe This Time: Solutions Will Spend the Next Two Months on How to Reform the Pentagon and Cut Its Budget
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Yesterday, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, put out a statement as he released his 2011 National …
Only New, Fair Voting Can Help Haiti Now
It is bad enough that, by delaying reconstruction aid to Haiti, the United States has failed to give adequate assistance to our neighbor, which was struck by a devastating …
William Rivers Pitt | A Rich Fantasy Life
I know I should be immune to this by now, but I still find myself awestruck by the incredibly detailed, insulated fantasy world that the American conservative "movement" has …
John Feffer | The S Word
A nation is like a marriage, or so Lenin imagined it to be, with each partner or province having a right to get out if things go horribly wrong. …
James C. Zogby | Politics and Nonsense on Egypt
When U.S. politicians are forced to discuss critical Middle East matters, more often than not, their remarks either display an ignorance of facts, are shaped more by political needs …
In the “Republic of Tahrir,” Egypt Gets Its Woodstock Moment
Cairo - Sherif Tharwat was stroking his chin, searching for a description for the jubilant scene before him in Tahrir Square, as a large group of anti-government protesters danced …
New Anti-Choice Bill Suggests More #DearJohn Letters Needed
Health advocate Eesha Pandit and blogger Sady Doyle join GRITtv host Laura Flanders for a discussion of the House GOP's draconian abortion bill, H.R.3. The bill, which Speaker John …
Sen. Jim Webb Will Not Run for Re-Election
Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, has decided not to run for re-election, avoiding a blockbuster rematch with the man he beat in 2006, George Allen, and giving Senate …
News in Brief: House Fails to Re-Authorize PATRIOT Act, and More
House Fails to Re-Authorize PATRIOT Act
Jim Hightower | Obama Walks in the Wrong Direction
As part of his odd and demeaning determination to hug up America's avaricious corporate powers, President Obama walked across Lafayette Square on Feb. 7 to enter the imperial gates …