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Fear of an Islamic Planet
It's easy to make fun of Michele Bachmann: her history gaffes, her Christian extremism, her ludicrous political positions. Journalists, though, would be sad to see her leave the Republican …
The Lessons of Law and Order: What Canadians Can Learn From Failed US Crime Policy
An Ontario Provincial Police vehicle. (Photo: NapaneeGal) "I want to be the Premier to bring change these families need and deserve. Change that puts criminals to work. …
Gertrude Stein’s “Missing” Vichy Years
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, New York, November 4, 1934. (Photo: Carl Van Vechten) Gertrude Stein was a complex, iconic, artistic figure: an experimental writer, an intellectual salon …
A Nation of “Suspects“
(Photo: Mick Orlosky; Edited: JR / Truthout) In the wake of COINTELPRO and the Watergate scandal, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas sent a letter to a …
How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine“
Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: …
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Graphic Foreign Policy
Living in Japan in the late 1990s, I was struck by the sheer number and variety ofmanga or comic books. You could go to a manga store and find an entire aisle …
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Taking Back the Vote
People vote in the special election for New York's 9th district, in a gymnasium in Queens, New York, September 13, 2011. (Photo: Michael Appleton / The New York Times) …
Obama’s Arc of Instability, Destabilizing the World One Region at a Time
It’s a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called “the arc of instability.” It involves at …
Five Super-Congress Debt-Cutting Myths
Ten years ago the country was on track to pay off the entire national debt in ... ten years. But then... So President Bush left behind a $1.4 trillion …
Targeting Dissent
Protesters at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 1, 2008. (Photo: hanskuder) How little - yet how much - has changed in the last …