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Protesting NATO in Chicago Will Be Too Late for Afghanistan
Dear friends of ordinary 99 percent Afghans, We thank you for your love and your hands and feet, in organizing for the upcoming Chicago protests! In these killing days, …
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Why the Supreme Court Matters
(Photo: Sean Lin / Flickr)When President Gerald Ford nominated him in 1975, Justice John Paul Stevens occupied the ideological center of the Supreme Court. By the time he retired …
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After “Constructive” Talks on Iran Nuclear Program, Hopes Rise for Diplomacy
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times)Istanbul, Turkey - Major world powers Saturday said their first meeting with Iran in over a year took …
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Romney Assures NRA of Support for Gun Rights
Mitt Romney. (Photo: BU Interactive News / Flickr)St. Louis - As he seeks to inspire the conservative base ahead of the general election, Mitt Romney spoke to the National …
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Murder of a Nobody
Kevin Sibbitt, a 911 Dispatcher, listens to a call. (Photo: JBLM PAO / Flickr)Victim on Lot 5 Diane Clemmons Belton was a nobody. For a time, years ago, after …
Mitt Romney: The Salesman Trapped in the GOP Madhouse
Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper. He's a salesman. Romney has been running for president since 2007. He has been running as a pragmatic conservative in a party no …
Gareth Evans, East Timor and Me
I have rarely ever come face to face - only inches in fact - with such anger. Certainly not at an academic conference. And certainly not from such a …
Suicides Outpace Combat Deaths, and Benefits Access a Struggle, for Veterans of Falklands/Malvinas War
The battle for the British-controlled Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina continues to kill, even 30 years after Argentine troops landed there on April 2, 1982. The struggle …
Rewriting the Rules of the Global Economy – Creating Economics That Improve People’s Lives
Deborah James has been a leader in the global movement for economic justice for decades. Today she serves as Director of International Programs at the Center for Economic and …
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What’s in a Name? George W. Regrets Dubbing Those “Bush Tax Cuts“
When George W. Bush made his first public appearance in many months to discuss economic policy in New York on Tuesday, his utterances may have revealed more than he …