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How Americans Can Get Up and Stand Up
In December 2009, psychologist Bruce Levine published an article at Alternet called “Are Americans a Broken People?” His timing couldn't have been better. Americans of good will and bad …
An Arab Spring for Women: The Missing Story From the Middle East
A woman wears a Tunisian flag during a protest outside government buildings in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 21, 2011. (Photo: Holly Pickett / The New York Times) …
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Guantanamo Detainee Files Hint at Psychological Research
The detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a photo taken on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The release by WikiLeaks …
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Kloppenburg Files for Statewide ‘Recount’ in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
Wisconsin's Asst. Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg has filed paperwork for a statewide, state-sponsored “recount” in the controversial April 5th State Supreme Court election. Speaking to supporters at …
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Gassy Geezer Pushes Fossil Fuel
This weekend, as 10,000 energetic, bright, young people are converging on Washington, DC, for PowerShift 2011, a geezer* is waging an all-out assault on their future. Eighty-two-year-old Texas fossil-fuel-pushing …
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The “Currency Wars”: What’s Next for the BRICs and Other Rising Powers?
Today’s “currency wars” stand at the intersection of many critical issues. These include the ability of developing countries to deploy capital controls, the role of the US as global …
Waukesha, WI Follies: 97.63 Percent Turnout in 2004? 20,000 More Votes Than “Ballots Cast” in 2006?
Waukesha County, Wisconsin's County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus was already known, for some time, to be among the nation's worst elections official. And that's saying quite a bit. But new …
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The Justice Dept. Doesn’t “Legalize” War With Secret Memos Anymore: Now They’re Public
In the good old days of Bybee and Yoo, before we let them get away with it, thereby guaranteeing worse things to come, Justice Department memos “legalizing” the crime …
Owned by the World’s Largest “Charity” Organization to Dodge Taxes, IKEA Thwarts Union Organizing
Three years after an IKEA factory moved to the small blue collar town of Danville, VA, the international furniture giant has become the center of a union battle, racial …
Unequal Protection: The Boston Tea Party Revealed
The battle between the small businessmen of America and the huge multinational East India Company actually began in Pennsylvania, according to Hewes.