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By Amy Goodman — Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in the middle of the night just over a month ago, enjoys global support for his return, with the exception of the Obama White House.
Posted on Aug 4, 2009
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By William Pfaff — The more wars you undertake abroad, the more places you intervene and the more bases you build around the world, the less secure you are.
Posted on Aug 4, 2009
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By Eugene Robinson — If there’s been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the “birthers,” I’ve missed it. Is this what our national discourse has come to? Sheer paranoid fantasy?
Posted on Aug 3, 2009
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By Chris Hedges — The most prominent faces of color, such as President Obama or Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., mask an insidious new racism that, in essence, tells blacks they have enough, that progress has been made and that it is up to them to take advantage of what society offers them.
Posted on Aug 3, 2009
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Things are looking up for the Republicans, relatively speaking. There’s just one problem: The country still doesn’t like them.
Posted on Aug 3, 2009
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By T.L. Caswell — With biomass pioneers advancing their technology, the smelly stuff that you throw away today may be providing electricity for your home tomorrow.
Posted on Aug 2, 2009
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By Ruth Marcus — The Supreme Court may soon allow an unlimited amount of corporate money into the political process. Imagine drug companies and banks running their own ads against legislators who vote against their interests.
Posted on Aug 2, 2009
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By Robert Fisk — Almost 19 years to the day after Saddam Hussein’s legions invaded Kuwait—and less than 18 years since the U.S. coalition liberated it—the Croesus-rich emirate is still demanding reparations from Baghdad as if the dictator of Iraq was still alive.
Posted on Aug 1, 2009
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By Stuart Whatley — To many observers, the recent New Jersey corruption sting, which resulted in the arrests of three mayors, two state assemblymen and five rabbis, seems rather surreal for the American social and political fabric.
Posted on Jul 31, 2009
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By David Sirota — The lawmakers charged with health care reform, hailing mostly from small states and rural areas, together represent only 13 million people, meaning those speaking for just 4 percent of America are maneuvering to impose their health care will on the other 96 percent of us.
Posted on Jul 31, 2009
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By Col. Timothy R. Reese —
As the old saying goes, “guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Since the signing of the 2009 Security Agreement, we are guests in Iraq, and after six years in Iraq, we now smell bad to the Iraqi nose.
Posted on Jul 30, 2009
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By William Pfaff — Since 2001, there has been no actual terrorist attack reported inside the United States, much less one involving al-Qaida. Plenty of people have been killed by fellow Americans, ordinarily in old-fashioned ways, during that period.
Posted on Jul 30, 2009
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The Truthdig panel talks to radio host and author Thom Hartmann about his new book, “Threshold,” the need for serious financial regulation and his trip to Darfur.
Posted on Jul 30, 2009
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — Let me declare my bias up front. No, I am not a friend of Henry “Skip” Gates, but I had an encounter with the Cambridge police similar to that of the good professor—36 years ago!
Posted on Jul 30, 2009
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By Joe Conason — Perhaps the time has come, if it isn’t already too late, for President Obama to ask for help from President Clinton.
Posted on Jul 29, 2009
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