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Plenty of Plenty in the New Food Plutocracy
As food prices, both in this country and abroad, continue their steady ascent, the amount we should pay for food remains a contested issue. In a February 21, 2011, …
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Democracy Talks – Listen Up!
(Image: The New Press) Bill Moyers has a new book out. In the interest of full disclosure, I edited the book with him and co-wrote its introduction. …
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Mubarak to Face Trial for Killing of Protesters
Cairo - Egypt’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered former President Hosni Mubarak to stand trial in connection with the killing of unarmed protesters during the 18-day-revolt that forced him …
When Institutions Rape Nations
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, is escorted from a New York Police Department station in Harlem after being formally arrested, in New York, on May …
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No “Hamas Exception” for Human Rights: A Reply to the American Jewish Committee
Hamas policemen guard a street corner in Gaza City, on June 27, 2010. (Photo: Shawn Baldwin / The New York Times) Following my post about my …
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Do Psychopaths Misrule Our World?
In recent days the political news has been like an episode of some TV drama about high-level corruption – call it “Criminal Minds” meets “The West Wing”. The head …
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Report Shows Comcast Violated Conditions of NBC Merger
(Photo: namestartswithj89) Comcast has violated the conditions of its merger with NBC by failing to air certain types of programming as required by the Federal Communications Commission …
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After Two Months, No End in Sight to Libyan Air Campaign
Washington - On March 19, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's army had quashed weeks of anti-government protests and was poised for an all-out assault on Benghazi, the opposition's stronghold, when …
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Tea Partiers March to Lobbyists’ Tune
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Newt’s Wedding Ring
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