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Sen. Diane Feinstein’s Husband Selling Post Offices to Cronies on the Cheap
Richard Blum, is feeding at the Postal Service privatization trough through an exclusive contract to handle sales for the Post Office's $85 billion of property.
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Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares
America needs to break the cycle that affirms everyone as a consumer and reduces freedom to unchecked self-interest while reproducing subjects who are willingly complicit with the plundering of …
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Stop the Kabuki: It’s About “the Great Betrayal“
MSNBC continues on with its campaign to cast the Tea Party Republicans in the role of principal villains in the imminent Government budget/government shutdown crisis and the likely coming …
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Without Privacy There Can Be No Democracy
The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, spoke this morning at the United Nations and delivered a powerful indictment of spying by the NSA on behalf of the United States.
Latest Plane Bullying Rift Pits Washington Against South America
A new controversy aggravating already strained relations between Washington and Caracas threatens to destabilise relations with other South American countries.
Drug Policy Alliance AG Holder Expands Major Reform of Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws
Orders prosecutors to remove any reference to quantities of illicit drugs that trigger mandatory minimums and to apply provision to pending cases.
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The House’s Un-American Activities
The Republicans are attempting to use these administrative processes to revoke or neutralize duly enacted legislation, and perhaps to hijack the governance process in other ways as well.
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Sen. Feinstein Wants to Strip Independent Journalists’ Rights
Freedom of the press may be one of the founding principles of the United States, but Senator Dianne Feinstein is on a mission to limit these powers.
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Drone Warfare Reveals Failure to Imagine Geography
The USu2019s dependency on drone warfare reveals a laziness in properly imagining geography.
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US Nuclear Policy: Where’s Our Credibility?
The insensitive timing, indeed the provocation of these tests, is remarkable.