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How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You
Many evangelicals wear their religion on T-shirts and around their necks and on car bumpers and eye-blacks. They hand out tracts on college campuses and stage revival meetings on …
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A Call for US and Afghan Citizens to Question the US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement
The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers question the presumption that the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is necessary for American or Afghan peace.
The United States Has Been Enabling Torture for Decades
(Image: Troy Page; Adapted: mike.benedetti, Caleb Kimbrough) Marjorie Cohn – a law professor and past president of the National Lawyer's Guild – has assembled a compelling interdisciplinary …
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Slovakia Defies the Kochs and Cato
David Koch. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The …
A Tough-Oil World: Why 21st Century Oil Will Break the Bank and the Planet
Oil prices are now higher than they have ever been — except for a few frenzied moments before the global economic meltdown of 2008. Many immediate factors are contributing …
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US Nun Tortured in Central America Recalls the Nightmare
(Image: New York University Press) Experience, we are told, is a great teacher. If this is so, then my classroom was a clandestine prison and my …
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Canadian Government Targeting Opponents of New Oil Sands Pipeline (2)
As U.S. environmental groups renew their battle against the resurrected Keystone XL oil pipeline, their counterparts in Canada are facing a deeper problem—a government campaign to limit their influence …
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Canadian Government Targeting Opponents of New Oil Sands Pipeline
Protesters in Prince George, British Columbia demonstrate against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipeline, August 18, 2011. (Photo: 350.org) As U.S. environmental groups renew their battle …
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Jeffrey Sachs’ Reform Candidacy for World Bank President
Jeffrey Sachs. (Photo: Joe Athialy / Flickr) Washington, D.C.- Economist and health expert Jeffrey Sachs’ reported candidacy for World Bank president is welcome news for the two-and-a-half …
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On International Women’s Day, Celebrate Feminist Victories of 2011
Today is International Women's Day. Christine Ahn and the Global Fund for Women mark the occasion by recalling substantial wins for women in 2011. On International Women’s …