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One Year After Fort Hood: The Missing Story of Muslim Peacemaking
Today, November 5, 2010, marks the one-year anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting, in which former Army psychiatrist Major Nadal Halik Hasan shot and killed 13 people at Fort …
The Party Game Is Over. Stand and Fight
Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many - they are few. …
“Even if We’re Peasants, We Deserve to Live, Too“
Tet Kole on the Needs of Haitian Farmers Tet Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti) is the oldest peasant group in Haiti, born covertly in …
After Valerie Plame: Obama Makes “Fair Game” of Today’s Whistleblowers
This week, the taut but surprisingly emotional thriller, “Fair Game,” hits selected theaters. It's about the Bush administration's retaliation against CIA operative Valerie Plame and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson …
Democrat Patty Murray Holds Onto Her Senate Seat, Just Barely
In the next-to-last US Senate race to be determined, Sen. Patty Murray (D) of Washington State has won reelection. That leaves just Alaska, where incumbent Lisa Murkowski – a …
Tea Party Vows to Block Campaign Finance Reform
Anonymous millionaires just helped elect dozens of ultraconservative congressional candidates, by pumping millions of dollars into national Tea Party organizations. And guess what's at the top of the legislative …
News in Brief: Feds Support Ruling Against Biotech Gene Patents, and More
Surprise - Feds Support Ruling Against Biotech Gene Patents
Missing: A Vision of Economic Possibility
It is now the morning after. Republicans, as expected, are celebrating a sweeping victory. Democrats are licking their wounds. Meanwhile, record numbers of people are still contending with the …
When China Exports, Everyone Pays
Recently, many commentators have equated recent European complaints about the weak American dollar with American complaints about the undervalued Chinese renminbi. Take, for example, commentary published Oct. 14 in …
How House Committees Will Change Under GOP Rule
Washington - The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives will mean a new lineup of powerful committee chairmen devoted to tough fiscal discipline, dramatic changes in health care …