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Fix the Pentagon Part I: Create an Independent Audit Agency
The Need for a Federal Contract Audit Agency Charles M. Smith
People for the American Way Condemns Abortion Provider Murder Bill
South Dakota’s House of Representatives is expected to vote soon on a bill that would legalize the killing of abortion providers. The bill, reported today in Mother Jones, would …
Shoulders to the Wheel: Laying the Foundations for Sustainable Local Food Systems
How do you create a locally harvested food system for a city of 100,000? This question is being asked presently in a seminar, in Duluth, Minnesota and the broader …
David Swanson | The Worst Thing Ever Invented
In this age of supposedly fighting against rulers and on behalf of oppressed peoples, the Vietnam War offers an interesting case in which the U.S. policy was to avoid …
The Fertility Show
The premise of the 2006 movie “Children of Men,” directed by Alfonso Cuaron, was that an unexplained phenomenon had rendered the entire human population sterile and the world had …
Reviving Compassion: Mary Pipher’s Work
Politics can be a difficult animal to grasp. They can either feel very distant - like nothing more than elections and the machinations of lawmakers far-removed from their constituencies …
Conspiracy Tactics from the Chamber (Video)
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Wisconsin Students Protest Governor’s Attack on Unions
More than 10,000 protesters, including students, demonstrated outside the state Capitol building in Madison today, many of them carrying signs and chanting “recall Walker.” This comes one day …
Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman
The hysteria in American media about Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not only ignorant and demagogic, it is hypocritical. The United States has actively promoted Muslim Brotherhood branches in other …
Bahrain Takes the Stage With a Raucous Protest
Manama, Bahrain - Hours after thousands of protesters poured into this nation’s symbolic center, Pearl Square, hundreds of people carried pro-democracy protests into a third straight day on Wednesday, …