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By Joe Conason — President Obama’s adversaries don’t seem to realize they have fallen into a trap, whether the White House set them up intentionally or not.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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AP / Kostas Tsironis
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By William Pfaff — Denied a referendum on crippling austerity measures, Greeks demonstrated Sunday night that if they couldn’t express their opinions one way, then they would do it in another.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
The Obama administration recently unveiled a string of proposals to help struggling homeowners and get the housing market back on its feet. Here are the latest of them, whether they are anything new and whether they stand a chance of going anywhere.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch —
Significant anniversaries are sometimes ignored. At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam and later all of Indochina.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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By Jim Lair Beard — You are not a patriot if you prize profits over people. You are a hoarder of wealth.
Posted on Feb 15, 2012
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AP / Evan Vucci
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By Chris Hedges — There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The problem with culture wars is that one side typically has absolutely no understanding of what the other is trying to say.
Posted on Feb 12, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The annual Washington showcase of the far right is plunging toward new depths of disgrace by featuring “white nationalists” among its speakers.
Posted on Feb 12, 2012
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By Paul Kiel, ProPublica —
On Feb. 9, administration officials stood alongside state attorneys general to announce a $25 billion mortgage settlement reminiscent of deal made three Februarys ago. Three years later, that program is widely considered a failure.
Posted on Feb 11, 2012
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By Bill Blum — On the surface, the case of Knox v. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) lacks blockbuster appeal. But in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, it has the potential to further rig the playing field in favor of big business and the right wing.
Posted on Feb 10, 2012
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AP / Eric Risberg, Pool
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Just in time for a certain prefabricated, romance-related holiday that shall remain nameless, we offer you a little valentine (oops!) of our own with a Truthdigger winner who truly brought the love in one inspiring gesture he made in a federal appeals court, of all places.
Posted on Feb 10, 2012
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