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Gandhi’s Lesson for Today
(Photo: Wikimedia) In a soon-to-be published book entitled Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiments with Truth, Jim Douglass contrasts the deadly machinations of Gandhi's probable killers …
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Judging a Long, Deadly Reach
Anwar al-Awlaki. (Photo: Wikimedia) Washington - The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen struck on Friday by a missile fired from a drone aircraft operated by …
Limitless Space: Computerized Dataveillance Since 9/11
(Photo: Jonathan McIntosh / Flickr) Hundreds of state, local and federal databases clog our nation's digital infrastructure, collecting, sharing and hoarding inconceivable amounts of information about ordinary …
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Pentagon Says Chaplains May Perform Gay Weddings
Washington - The Defense Department issued new guidelines Friday that allow military chaplains to officiate at same-sex weddings, on or off military installations, in states where such weddings are …
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Five Ways Occupy Wall Street Has Succeeded
(Photo: Paul Stein / Flickr) #OccupyWallStreet protests are now well into their second week, and they are increasingly capturing the public spotlight. This is because, whatever limitations …
Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: puntidivitaestilidivista, Pulpolux !!!) On August 14, 2011, Vance Gilbert, a middle-aged African-American musician, was sitting on a plane at Logan Airport reading …
Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors
(Photo: Christian Newton / Flickr) “Unrestrained financial exploitations have been one of the great causes of our present tragic condition.” -President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933
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The Ideal Capital Gains Tax Reform
(Photo: www.seniorliving.org) Warren Buffett recently enraged the right by chastising Congress for “coddling” millionaires and billionaires. In a widely quoted op-ed, he urged lawmakers to "raise rates …
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The “People’s Microphone“
As the “Audacity of Hope” leaches away from the reality-based community, Americans engaged in social movement activity are finally catching up with their brothers and sisters in other parts …
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AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Backs Occupy Wall Street
Watch the video on CSPAN. Rough transcript: okay. let's take questions from the audience. in the very back there's a question with his hand …