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By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch —
Once upon a time, the “red line” for Washington on Iran was the “enrichment” of uranium. Now, it’s an actual nuclear weapon that could be brandished. But what if the red line is really the petrodollar line?
Posted on Jan 18, 2012
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — Some Egyptian women have an answer for vigilantes armed with walking sticks: welts and words that are far from submissive.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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U.S. Marine Corps / Cpl. Bryan Nygaard
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By William Pfaff — Now that America’s primary elections have eliminated the more implausible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, it is possible to take a clearer look at what the electorate will be up against when the conventions are over in the fall.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — From all evidence, the issue of economic justice isn’t going away. Break the news gently to Mitt Romney, who seems apoplectic that the whole “rich get richer, poor get poorer” thing is being discussed out loud. In front of the children, for goodness’ sake.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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AP / Iranian Students News Agency, Mehdi Ghasemi
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By Barry Lando — A lot of people with important-sounding titles pontificate on what lies ahead, but whom are they kidding? It’s like we’re watching kids playing around with vials of highly volatile chemicals.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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AP / Dusan Vranic
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By Chris Hedges — On my behalf, attorneys have challenged a law that allows imprisonment of U.S. citizens without trial.
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By Peter Z. Scheer — Newt Gingrich has made it clear that if he can’t be president, he’s going to try to take Mitt Romney down with him. But the former House speaker’s endless stream of attack ads could, perversely, end up strengthening the “Massachusetts Moderate,” who seems likely to survive the onslaught.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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AP / Jacquelyn Martin
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By Eugene Robinson — In these sour, pessimistic times, it is important to remember the great lesson of King’s remarkable life: Impossible dreams can come true.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — This is what progress looks like for a president named Barack Hussein Obama.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
When it came to rolling out a new 10-year plan for the future of the U.S. military recently, President Obama was at the top of his game.
Posted on Jan 14, 2012
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AP / Mary Schwalm
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Affordable Care Act, the health reform signed into law by Obama, is now best known by the Republican label “Obamacare.” Romney hopes to ride that misleading word to the presidency.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
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AP / Erich Schlegel
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Here’s a sobering dose of reality: Poverty in America has risen to the 27 percent mark in the last half-decade and, perhaps worse, the prospects for our nation’s poorest won’t necessarily get better as the economy picks up. It’s not news many want to hear, but we’re glad a group of researchers at Indiana University were gutsy enough to release it.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
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By David Sirota — There really are “Two Americas,” as the saying goes—and that’s no accident. Nowhere is this more obvious than in education—a realm in which this elite physically separates itself from us mere serfs.
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
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By Marcia Alesan Dawkins — Michelle Obama joined Twitter on Thursday. For some this doesn’t qualify as news in a world full of political and economic turmoil.
Posted on Jan 12, 2012
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This study by Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs examines the impact of the Great Recession and its aftermath on poverty in America.
Posted on Jan 12, 2012
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