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By Susan Zakin — Are the emirs of the Sahara criminals or revolutionaries? A little bit of both, probably.
Posted on May 16, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Mitt Romney was against Bill Clinton before he was for him.
Posted on May 16, 2012
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By Susan Zakin — Everything that rises must converge, and in 2012, an uprising at the ancient crossroads of Timbuktu kicked up a decades-in-the-making sandstorm of global capitalism, U.S. counterterrorism, cocaine smuggling and the long-denied rights of the most romantic nomads on earth.
Posted on May 16, 2012
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By William Pfaff — To understand what is happening in the eurozone, it is necessary to understand something of the past.
Posted on May 16, 2012
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By William J. Astore, TomDispatch —
Whether President Obama or assumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney wins the presidency, there’s a third candidate no one’s paying much attention to, and that candidate is guaranteed to be the one clear winner of election 2012: the U.S. military and our ever-surging national security state.
Posted on May 15, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans say they’re eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from “distractions” and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they’re not careful, they might get their wish.
Posted on May 15, 2012
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By Dafna Linzer, ProPublica —
The prosecutor and trial judge urged federal officials to commute Clarence Aaron’s sentence, but the Justice Department had other ideas.
Posted on May 14, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has turned much of the rest of the planet into what can only be considered an American free-fire zone.
Posted on May 14, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — We have been, like nations on the periphery of empire, colonized.
Posted on May 14, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Recently, a group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post cast as an “open letter to ‘liberal’ and ‘nominal’ Catholics.”
Posted on May 14, 2012
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
The congressman who last year took a $22,000 four-day trip to Taiwan organized by lobbyists said Friday that he will personally reimburse the university that paid for the trip.
Posted on May 12, 2012
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It must have been a strange sight in London on Thursday when uniformed police officers ushered upward of 35,000 of their off-duty colleagues from across the U.K. through the streets during a protest against cuts that could leave 16,000 police members across the country without jobs.
Posted on May 11, 2012
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By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt —
Not so many years ago, President Jimmy Carter and his successor, Ronald Reagan, championed Social Security as a necessary protection for American citizens in old age. But that was before Congress voted to allow federal agencies to hold back portions of the program’s payments to collect debts owed to them.
Posted on May 11, 2012
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
Though rules laid down by the House Ethics Committee expressly forbid participation in lobbyist-organized trips, Rep. Bill Owens and his wife took a four-day tour of Taiwan late last year that was arranged by lobbyists with ex-New York Sen. Al D’Amato’s firm, Park Strategies.
Posted on May 11, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama’s evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation’s long march toward equality and justice.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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