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Late last year, President Obama pulled a fast one by changing his stance on the National Defense Authorization Act so suddenly and drastically that Americans were left with a bad case of legislative whiplash—and a very serious state of affairs with regard to our civil liberties.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Voters should support Romney, the narrator says, because “beating Obama is the most important issue.” Am I the only one to find that weird?
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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By David Sirota — The Texan’s candidacy is showing that the conventional definition of intolerable bigotry is disturbingly narrow—and embarrassingly selective.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Who does Mitt Romney think he is fooling with this charade? Republicans are rightly concerned that his sense of entitlement, symbolized by the tax question, will damage their party’s chances next fall.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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By Nomi Prins — The markets weren’t shocked by last week’s wave of pre-broadcast S&P sovereign debt downgrades. For months, the question wasn’t “if” but “when.” And true to form, just as with the U.S. downgrade, S&P’s reasoning skated the surface of prevailing wisdom.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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Robert Scheer’s weekly column will resume next Thursday. In the meantime, read up on the classics or tune in to this week’s Truthdig Radio (Thursday at 4 p.m. Pacific on 90.7 KPFK Los Angeles—livestream here) for Scheer in conversation with Chris Hedges.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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By Deanne Stillman — California may be a blue state in terms of voting patterns, but it’s very involved in red state politics, if you consider the role of evangelical voters.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Wednesday, Jan. 18, marked the largest online protest in the history of the Internet. Websites from large to small “went dark” in protest of proposed legislation before the U.S. House and Senate that could profoundly change the Internet.
Posted on Jan 18, 2012
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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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AP / Amr Nabil
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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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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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