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William J. Astore | Our Military’s Disturbing Transition to Warriors
A subtle change has been happening right before the eyes of Americans. Our troops are being told they're no longer primarily citizen-soldiers or citizen-airmen; they're being told they're warriors. …
Who Pays for Agricultural Dumping? Farmers in Developing Countries
Brazil and the United States may have settled, for now, their long-running WTO dispute over U.S. cotton subsidies, but the issues it raised remain. After all, Brazilian producers were …
What a Legal Pot Economy Would Look Like (Video)
How everyone stands to benefit from ending the war on weed.
House Votes to Eliminate Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
Washington - The House of Representatives passed a historic bill Wednesday that narrows sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine convictions, which civil rights and civil liberties experts say …
Breakthrough? Abbas Gets Arab Backing to Enter Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
Jerusalem - Setting the stage for the Palestinians to negotiate directly with Israel, the Arab League agreed in principle today to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas holding face-to-face peace talks …
A Trove of FDR’s Papers Finally Available to the Public
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Tea Partyers in Wonderland
The mythmongers in Tea Party land and millions more Americans seem to prefer fiction to fact. Based on a mid-April New York Times/CBS News poll of about 1,600 adults, …
Zach Carter | Four Bogus Attacks Bankers and Their Political Puppets Are Using to Attack Elizabeth Warren
No reformers question whether Elizabeth Warren is the best candidate to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She's a lauded scholar, an inspiring advocate who will draw talented …
Shirley Sherrod, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt and American Racial Hysteria
The recent firing of Shirley Sherrod by the secretary of agriculture after an excerpt of a video of her speech at an NAACP event was used to portray her …
Dave Lindorff | National Insecurity: Afraid of the Truth
The White House’s initial response to the release of 92,000 pages of raw reports from the field by US forces in Afghanistan for a period from 2004-2009—that it was …