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By Ivo Mijnssen — Russia is cracking down further on political dissent by requiring foreign humanitarian workers to register, more or less, as spies.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The potential of a renaissance in conservative thought is enormous, if the right can overcome a certain intellectual laziness and inflexibility that, in fairness, have at other times afflicted the progressive side of politics.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Whistle-blowers have warned that intelligence agencies are abusing the Constitution and lavishing private companies with expensive contracts in exchange for subpar results.
Posted on Nov 30, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The annual United Nations climate summit has convened, this year in Doha, the capital of the oil-rich emirate of Qatar, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Any way you slice and dice the data, they point toward inevitable political change over the next couple of decades.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
There is no debate on climate change in Germany, where architects of the clean energy movement estimate that from 80 percent to 100 percent of the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Amaia Engana didn’t wait to be evicted from her home. On Nov. 9, in the town of Barakaldo, a suburb of Bilbao in Spain’s Basque Country, officials from the local judiciary were on their way to serve her eviction papers. Amaia stood on a chair and threw herself out of her fifth-floor apartment window, dying instantly on impact on the sidewalk below.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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There is a growing and idiotic movement by people dissatisfied with American democracy in the form of President Obama’s re-election to secede from the union. I have a better idea: Just move.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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AP/Matt Rourke
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By Robert Scheer — Election night was a heck of a party, but morning in America already feels too much like a hangover.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Joe Conason — What Barack Obama tried to tell America in the hour of his remarkable victory is that the nation’s future won on Election Day.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s Peter Hart tweets, “If you have to wait in line for hours to vote, that’s not an accident. Someone wants it to be that way.” Once again we’re hearing reports of long voting waits in some precincts. How long did you stand in line? Let us know in the comments.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The 2012 campaign began on Aug. 2, 2011, when President Obama signed the deal ending the debt-ceiling fiasco. At that moment, the president relinquished his last illusions that the current, radical version of the Republican Party could be dealt with as a governing partner. From then on, Obama was determined to fight—and to win.
Posted on Nov 4, 2012
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While Mitt Romney tries to make us believe socialism is evil, working mothers in France are evidence to the contrary; several stories about employers insisting their employees vote for Romney have come to light; meanwhile, activists in Guatemala are peacefully protesting mining in San José del Golfo in spite of violence against them. These discoveries and more.
Posted on Nov 4, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Millions of victims of Superstorm Sandy remain without power, but they are not powerless to do something about climate change.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
We often speak as though the source of so many of our problems is complex and even mysterious. I’m not sure it is. You can blame it all on greed: the refusal to do anything about climate change, the attempts by the .01% to destroy our democracy, the constant robbing of the poor, the resultant starving children, the war against most of what is beautiful on this Earth.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.
Posted on Oct 29, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Of the 11 initiatives before the 2012 California electorate, one drawing perhaps the most attention is Proposition 37, on the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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AP/Susan Walsh
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The famed whistle-blower has been a sharp critic of the president, but he says a Romney/Ryan administration would be “catastrophically worse.”
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — You may have noticed that the Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, was absent from the “town hall” presidential debate at Hofstra University the other night. That’s because she was shackled to a chair in a nearby New York police facility, along with her running mate, Green Party vice president nominee Cheri Honkala.
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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Photo by Devin Smith (CC-BY)
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By Peter Z. Scheer — There is no single issue more frustrating to the cause of progress than the relative struggle the left has organizing voters and getting them to the polls.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so many people and created a looming threat of chronic unemployment for millions.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney claims to disagree with President Obama on many aspects of foreign policy. We’re still waiting to hear what those differences might be.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — The presidential debate this week was much ado about nothing, and Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama because he was more energetic in distorting the significance of their miniscule differences.
Posted on Oct 5, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Although the Electoral College usually gives Republicans an advantage, the system is working in President Obama’s favor in 2012.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
The American public has remained largely silent, if not also complicitous, with the rise of a neoliberal version of authoritarianism.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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Photo by Adam Campbell (CC-BY-ND)
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A Guardian survey of six swing states finds new voter registration markedly down from 2008 levels, particularly among Democrats. A lack of enthusiasm could be to blame, as could the nationwide effort by Republican-controlled state legislatures to make it more difficult to vote.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — A new poll shows that Obama will likely win re-election thanks overwhelmingly to female voters. Fight a war with women and you’ll lose, because women have always had to fight harder.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — You may never have heard of Sensata Technologies, but in this election season, you’ve probably heard the name of its owner, Bain Capital, the company co-founded and formerly run by Mitt Romney.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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AP/Jim Cole
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By Bill Boyarsky — In many states, the number of eligible Latino citizens that could be affected by barriers to voting exceeds the margin of victory of the 2008 presidential election.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — When Michelle Obama called voting rights “the movement of our era” in a speech Saturday night, she didn’t specifically mention the Republican-led crusade for restrictive voter identification laws. She didn’t have to.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Western Pennsylvania is considered the birthplace of commercial oil drilling. On Aug. 27, 1859, Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pa., and changed the course of history. Now, people there are busy trying to stop wells, and the increasingly pervasive drilling practice known as fracking.
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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AP/John Minchillo
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By Chris Hedges — In January I sued President Barack Obama for authorizing the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in short, just declared the law unconstitutional.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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AP/John Raoux
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By Scott Tucker — Democratic and Republican politicians keep each other in business.
Posted on Sep 16, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Amy Goodman — Unions are under attack in the United States—not only from people like Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, but now, with the teachers strike in Chicago, from the very core of President Barack Obama’s inner circle, his former chief of staff and current mayor of that city, Rahm Emanuel.
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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By Alan Minsky —
It’s fine to catalog the sins of Obama, but it’s a largely meaningless parlor game unless we offer a coherent vision that outlines a winning strategy.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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