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The rich need ever more servants at a time when millions of people need jobs. Now, thanks to ingenious legislation, there’s a win-win solution.

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]]> 2011-08-09T06:37:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/if_mccain_had_won_20110715/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/if_mccain_had_won_20110715/ afghanistan, barack obama, guantanamo, guantánamo, israel, john mccain, national economic council, nuclear weapons, pakistan, robert rubin, timothy geithner,

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]]> 2011-07-16T06:19:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/wikileaks_exposes_the_danger_of_pakistans_nukes_20110113/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/wikileaks_exposes_the_danger_of_pakistans_nukes_20110113/ afghanistan, anne patterson, economy, fred branfman, george w. bush, government, iran, iraq, military, nuclear, nukes, obama, pakistan, security, state department, state department cables, terrorism, war, wikileaks,

There are few scenarios more frightening for America than a domestic nuclear terrorist attack. We now know that U.S. policy is actually increasing the danger of a nuclear incident.

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]]> 2011-01-13T13:21:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hillary_clinton_celebrates_kissinger_while_white_house_repeats_his_mistakes/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hillary_clinton_celebrates_kissinger_while_white_house_repeats_his_mistakes/ afghanistan, cia, clinton, congress, fred branfman, government, henry kissinger, hillary clinton, history, iraq, law, military, obama, pakistan, richard holbrooke, security, state department, vietnam, war, By Fred Branfman, AlterNet

Future historians will marvel at how U.S. leaders failed to learn from their horrific crimes in Indochina, and are instead repeating many of them today.

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]]> 2010-09-28T23:51:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_gen_petraeus_assasination_inc_threatens_us_all_20100824/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_gen_petraeus_assasination_inc_threatens_us_all_20100824/ afghanistan, assassination, bush, campaign, cia, congress, democracy, drones, fred branfman, gen. david petraeus, government, history, iran, iraq, law, military, nuclear, obama, oil, pakistan, pentagon, petraeus, security, torture, war, By Fred Branfman, AlterNet

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]]> 2010-08-24T18:49:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/when_rolling_stone_calls_the_shots_its_time_to_negotiate_20100630/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/when_rolling_stone_calls_the_shots_its_time_to_negotiate_20100630/ afghanistan, barack obama, campaign, congress, fred branfman, gen. david petraeus, gen. stanley mcchrystal, government, iraq, media, military, obama, pentagon, rolling stone, security, war,

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]]> 2010-06-24T02:12:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_warning_from_noam_chomsky_on_the_threat_of_elites_20100607/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_warning_from_noam_chomsky_on_the_threat_of_elites_20100607/ afghanistan, barack obama, book, bush, campaign, clinton, congress, debate, democracy, economy, election, fred branfman, government, health, health care, history, iran, iraq, israel, law, media, military, noam chomsky, nuclear, obama, pentagon, politics, senate, terrorism, torture, war,

Whether in war or finance, the imperial mentality of elites is increasingly threatening the “unpeople” of the world, as Noam Chomsky writes in his latest book.

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