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By Marybeth Hamilton
By Chris Hedges
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — On contraception, Obama threw his progressive Catholic allies under the bus, strengthened the very forces inside the church that sought to derail the health care law, and created unnecessary problems for himself in the 2012 election.
Posted on Jan 29, 2012
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by Michael Grabell, ProPublica —
In addition to the use of controversial airport body scanners, the U.S. government now deploys various X-ray devices at the border, in prisons and on the streets of New York. And some of them expose people to higher doses of radiation.
Posted on Jan 28, 2012
21 COMMENTS
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By Christian Parenti, TomDispatch —
Don’t expect the present anti-government “consensus” to last. Global warming and the freaky, increasingly extreme weather that will accompany it is going to change all that.
Posted on Jan 28, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — With financial and political interests ranging from Las Vegas to Israel to China, Sheldon Adelson, who is bankrolling the super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich, is a powerful illustration of the dangers of unlimited campaign contributions.
Posted on Jan 27, 2012
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AP / Bruce Smith
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Yes, he’s a funny guy, and granted, he’s a celebrity and thus already commands an absurd amount of attention and bandwidth, but we’re quite serious about our pick of Stephen Colbert as this week’s Truthdigger.
Posted on Jan 27, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — If you heard a loud “gulp” Tuesday night after President Obama’s State of the Union address, it probably came from Republican political strategists as they realized their party’s odds of capturing the White House this fall are getting longer.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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By William Astore, TomDispatch —
“Makin’ Thunderbirds” is about auto workers back in 1955 who were “young and proud” to be making Ford cars. But in the early 1980s, Bob Seger sings, “the plants have changed and you’re lucky if you work.” Now America’s plants make the deadliest of weapons.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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AP / Saul Loeb
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By Robert Scheer — I get angry because betrayal by the “good guys” for whom I have ended up voting has become the norm.
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By Joe Conason — Why the Republicans chose Mitch Daniels to deliver a rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union address is puzzling. Isn’t he the former Bush budget director who said the Iraq War would cost $50 billion when it ended up costing $3 trillion?
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Amy Goodman — In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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AP / Gene J. Puskar
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By Mark Heisler — Unfortunately, most people will insist they were the ones insisting this was a witch hunt all along, and believe it.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The obsession of the American foreign policy community, as well as most American (and a good many international) politicians, by the myth of Iran’s “existential” threat to Israel, brings the world steadily closer to another war in the Middle East.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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By Lena Groeger, ProPublica —
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released 550 pages of tax returns Tuesday and news organizations are making their way through them. ProPublica shows us where to look to make sense of the numbers.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch —
While most anti-fracking activists have been responding to harms already done, New York state’s resistance movement has been waging a battle to keep harm at bay.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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