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How to Forget on Memorial Day: Whistling Past the Graveyard of Empires
Itu2019s the saddest reading around: the little announcements that dribble out of the Pentagon every day or two — those terse, relatively uninformative death notices.
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Florida Congressman Demands Gov. Rick Scott “Immediately Suspend” Voter Purge
Gov. Rick Scott is currently involved in a massive effort to purge up to 180,000 from the voting rolls.
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The Environment Is Dead: Long Live Mother Nature
Raffi Cavoukian: The movement to protect and restore Earth's living splendor needs rebranding.
Messing With Our Minds: The Ever Finer Line Between News and Advertising
Almost every nation needs a controlled mainstream media if it is to regulate and influence its citizenry. By way of the mainstream media, a controlling authority is able to …
Drone Warfare: Killing Our Civil Liberties With a Joystick
Drone warfare is cowardly. A technician jiggles a joystick. Seconds later, thousands of miles away, a Reaper drone robot airplane fires a Hellfire missile, maiming or dismembering unsuspecting, unarmed, …
Prisoners’ Families Are Paying for State Prison Kickbacks in Order to Phone Their Loved Ones
The average state commission was 42 percent, but some reached as high as 60 percent of the money from the phone calls.
What Can Labor Win if It Backs Obama’s Re-Election?
Amy Dean talks to Richard Kahlenberg and Richard Bensinger about reforms that could finally give battle-weary union members a reason to send Obama and other Democrats back to Washington.
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Why Obama Should Be Attacking Casino Capitalism
Bain Capital and JPMorgan are parts of the same problem.
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Congress Isn’t Just Stalemated, It’s Broken, Experts Say
Today, almost everything on Capitol Hill is taken hostage in the partisan war. Thereu2019s no single easy explanation, but there are several.
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Rape Behind Bars: New Rules to Protect LGBTQ Inmates, but Will Immigration and Customs Enforcement Comply?
After living in Tucson, Arizona, for 20 years, Tanya Guzman-Martinez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and placed in a detention center for suspected undocumented immigrants