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The Emperor’s Messenger Has No Clothes: Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman
(Image: Verso) What's scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its underinflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may …
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Uncle Sam, Global Gangster
With the United States now well into the second decade of what the Pentagon has styled an “era of persistent conflict,” the war formerly known as the global war …
Industry Plan to Save Us From Global Warming a Nightmare, Not a Dream
The American Electric Power coal plant in New Haven, W.Va., in September 2009. As Congress debates legislation to slow global warming by limiting emissions, engineers are tinkering with ways …
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A Story and a Book: On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence
Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and the ever-frustrating all-too-abstract dialogues about the meanings of nonviolence, violence, strategy, tactics, …
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Florida Lawmakers Defeat Prison Privatization Amid National Push for For-Profit Jails
The Florida State Senate has defeated a measure to privatize at least 27 prisons, which would have created the largest corporate-run prison system in the country. Despite the vote, …
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Congress Acts to Extend Aid to Jobless and Payroll Tax Cut
Washington, DC - With members of both parties expressing distaste at some of the particulars, Congress on Friday voted to extend payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits and …
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Tracking Radiation From Japan to the Pacific Northwest: Scientific Insights
As the first plumes of radioactive dust began crossing the Pacific from Japan's damaged nuclear reactors, physicists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory joined an urgent and meticulous tracking …
Jeremy Scahill: US Has Ignited Islamist Uprising in Impoverished, Divided Yemen (2)
Has U.S. counterterrorism policy in Yemen strengthened the very threat it sought to eliminate? We speak with journalist Jeremy Scahill, who reports in a new cover story for The …
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Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). (Photo: republicanconference / Flickr) This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before …
On First Anniversary of Wisconsin Uprising, Gov. Walker Fights Recall Effort by Energized Movement (2)
Today marks the first anniversary of the Wisconsin uprising that erupted after Republican Gov. Scott Walker announced plans to eliminate almost all collective bargaining rights for most public workers, …