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Iran, Israel and the US: The Slide To War
Wars are fought because some people decide it is in their interests to fight them. World War I was not started over the Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination, nor was it …
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Mike Daisey Takes a Bite Out of Apple
If you would seek proof of that famous Margaret Mead adage: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only …
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“Top Levels” of Syria Regime Responsible for War Crimes, UN Says
Washington - As the city of Homs shuddered Thursday from another day of Syrian army bombardments, U.N. investigators held regime officials and military commanders “at the highest levels” responsible …
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Why the Banks Are Too Big to Jail
A Bank of America building in San Francisco. (Photo: Michele Ursino / Flickr) Washington, DC - Among the fundamental principles of any functioning justice system is …
Revealed: Corporation-Courting Imperialist Thomas Friedman
Verso Books recently inaugurated a series it calls “Counterblasts,” which “aims to revive the tradition of polemical writing inaugurated by Puritan and leveller pamphleteers in the seventeenth century.” Its …
Don’t Bank on an End to Santorum’s Surges
Sen. Rick Santorum speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 17, 2011. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) “Santorum's hopes may be dashed,” read Rosalind S. …
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Seven Female Missouri House Members Say They Were Kept Out of Contraception Debate
President Barack Obama, joined by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, Feb. 10, 2012. (Photo: Stephen …
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Over the Top With Rick Santorum
Surely Rick Santorum is the most fanatical Christian to run for the Republican nomination in the modern era, maybe any era. Next to him, Pat Robertson, billionaire founder of …
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New York Court Affirms Towns’ Powers to Ban Fracking
In a decision that could set a national precedent for how local governments can regulate gas drilling, a New York state court yesterday ruled for the first time that …
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On the President as Alien
Washington - They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn't, he's a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he's a Nazi, …