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Holder a Lonely Holdout as Death Row Enters Death Throes
In seeking the death penalty for the accused Boston marathon bomber, Eric Holder violates his personal opposition, Boston public opinion and growing nationwide resistance to execution as criminal punishment.
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The Zombification of the West
The Western world has become tolerant of despotic policies. But will recognition of that passivity's root causes bring much-needed resistance?
CIA vs. Senate: Who Is Obama Protecting?
Elizabeth Goitein: President Obama is protecting senior CIA officials and himself.
Elizabeth Warren’s Post Office Proposal
Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually good at seeing through the rhetoric. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warrenu2019s support of postal financial services, he has done a serious …
Chile’s Student Movement Leads the Way: Progressive Prospects for Michelle Bachelet’s Second Term
This week, the daughter of Chile's Salvador Allende, the socialist president who was assassinated in a 1973 US-backed coup, took office as Senate President alongside Michelle Bachelet, marking a …
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Realistic Left Politics in Texas
In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.
Senator Feinstein Takes CIA Spying Accusation to Senate Floor
NSA Whistelblower William Binney says Sen. Feinstein is hypocritical for supporting spying under the Obama administration but only speaking out after her committee is spied on.
From Fallujah to the San Fernando Valley, Police Use Analytics to Target “High-Crime” Areas
Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …
William Blum Discusses America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Foreign policy commentator and author William Blum discusses his latest book, “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy, The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else,” the real threat to US …
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AIPAC and CPAC Come to Town
It began with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), then at week's end the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was in Washington rallying their crowd to bash the …