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By William Pfaff — Is the United States in decline? It’s clear to anyone who has been to Europe or the major Asian states recently, where everything works beautifully, even if Europe’s debts are not paid off.
Posted on Apr 10, 2012
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By Barry Lando — Mike was part reporter, part actor playing reporter. He had a flair for the dramatic, the ability to achieve almost instant rapport with interviewees no matter their wealth, achievement or background.
Posted on Apr 9, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — There is no substantial difference between Obamacare and Romneycare. There is no substantial difference between Obama and Romney.
Posted on Apr 9, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Conservatives are not accustomed to being on the defensive. They expect their progressive opponents to be wimpy and apologetic.
Posted on Apr 8, 2012
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This week’s Truthdigger choice may seem like a no-brainer, and in many ways it is, as journalist and “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman has made a career out of exemplifying just those qualities we look for when picking our winners.
Posted on Apr 7, 2012
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By Ken Jacobsen, AlterNet —
Historically, corporations were understood to be responsible to a complex web of constituencies, including employees, communities, society at large, suppliers, and shareholders. But in the era of deregulation, the interests of shareholders began to trump all the others. How can we get corporations to recognize their responsibilities beyond this narrow focus?
Posted on Apr 7, 2012
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
Along with “fivedollaragallongas,” the energy watchword for the next few months is: “subsidies”—a word representing at least $10 billion in freebies and possibly as much as $40 billion annually in freebie cash for an energy industry already making historic profits.
Posted on Apr 7, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — If Mitt Romney had walked by a room called The Forum at the University of Southern California last Wednesday, he would quit his presidential race right now.
Posted on Apr 5, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Playing second fiddle to Mitt Romney won’t be easy, but somebody has to be his running mate.
Posted on Apr 5, 2012
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By David Sirota — Instead of beefing up public transit, cities build neighborhood-destroying highways, cars fill up those highways, cities then build more highways to alleviate traffic, and then yet more cars flood the roads, creating even more traffic.
Posted on Apr 5, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — The night after President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act was being mercilessly attacked by U.S. Supreme Court conservatives, I was surprised to find a group of Obama volunteers cheerfully gathered in a nondescript office building east of Los Angeles to make phone calls for the president’s campaign.
Posted on Apr 5, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — The Republicans are a sick joke, and their narrow ideological stupidity has left rational voters no choice in the coming presidential election but Barack Obama.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012
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By Joe Conason — While the public awaits the Supreme Court’s judgment on the constitutionality of health care reform, it is worth remembering how cheaply Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in particular have sullied the integrity of their lifetime appointments.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — “My name is Kenneth Chamberlain. This is my sworn testimony. White Plains police are going to come in here and kill me.” And that’s just what they did.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s hard not to notice that Christianity hasn’t been presented in its own best light during this election year because Christians have not exactly been putting forward their best selves.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012
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