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Shutterstock photo of tax forms.
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By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
The IRS division responsible for flagging tea party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.
Posted on May 17, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court.
Posted on May 15, 2013
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U.S. Marine Corps./Gunnery Sgt. Michael Kropiewnicki
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By David Sirota — On June 30, 1973, a 24-year-old plumber’s apprentice became the last American forced into the armed services before the military draft expired.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Monday was Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts, celebrating the day the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It is also the day of the annual Boston Marathon, which will now, sadly, go down in history as yet another episode of senseless mass violence.
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of the euro.
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By William Pfaff — A new “Alternative for Germany” political movement has erupted as a backlash against the euro, and against Germany’s fellow members of the EU.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Economist Michael Hudson attacks Obama’s proposed cuts. Also on the program: the fight to keep Monsanto from polluting Hawaii’s natural wonders, a college degree ain’t what it used to be, and a new movie documents the legal showdown over medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Economist Michael Hudson attacks Obama’s proposed cuts. Also on the program: the fight to keep Monsanto from polluting Hawaii’s natural wonders, a college degree ain’t what it used to be, and a new movie documents the legal showdown over medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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Warner Bros.
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By Allen Barra — Jackie Robinson’s story has been oddly neglected by Hollywood—until now.
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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AP/Bernat Armangue
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By Sandy Tolan — Amira Hass, the groundbreaking reporter who has lived in the Palestinian territories for most of the last two decades, defended the rights of Palestinians to throw stones at occupying Israeli forces.
Posted on Apr 10, 2013
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Flickr/Cliff (CC-BY)
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By Amy Goodman — WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976 that it has dubbed “The Kissinger Cables.”
Posted on Apr 10, 2013
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AP/Chris Park
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By Bill Boyarsky — Gutless action has no place in the high court’s deliberations on marriage.
Posted on Apr 8, 2013
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AP
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By Robert Scheer — For all of the strident attacks on Stockman’s column, I have yet to read a serious critique of his most brazen claim.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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Emily Mills (CC-BY-ND)
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By Eugene Robinson — Don’t take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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AP/Rogelio V. Solis
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By Bill Blum — There is good reason to be optimistic that the Roberts court will bow to the growing public acceptance of same-sex marriage.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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AP/Biswaranjan Rout
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By William Pfaff — A day will undoubtedly come when Osama bin Laden will occupy the same place in 21st century history books as Gavrilo Princip holds in the histories of the 20th century. Both committed acts that provoked great wars, brought down empires and profoundly altered their times.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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AP/Richard Drew
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By William Pfaff — A Gallup poll issued this month says that 99 percent of the American public now has become convinced that Iran’s civilian nuclear program will threaten “the vital interests of the United States in the next ten years.” Eighty-three percent say this will be “a critical threat.” Why?
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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AP/dapd/Berthold Stadler
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By Paul Von Blum — The modern civil rights movement occurred long before millions of Americans were born, but many participants and observers are still available to recount their stories.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
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By Robert Scheer — What was Michelle Obama thinking? What if the card for “Zero Dark Thirty” had been lurking in that best picture envelope Sunday?
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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United States Department of Energy
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Five more tanks are leaking at a shuttered nuclear facility in Washington state.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By David Sirota — Despite its success in recent elections, and despite the image of unity it projects, the Democratic Party is in the throes of an epic identity crisis pitting its corporate money against its stated principles.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — If I were a Republican activist, I think I would give up reading political journalism for a while. I might even turn to reading history, say the history of whatever happened to the Whig Party.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — The Academy Awards ceremony will make history this year with the first-ever nomination of a feature documentary made by a Palestinian.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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AP/U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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By Bill Blum — Assassinations have long been regarded as a basic element of foreign relations that largely remained in the dark, unspoken of but widely practiced in response to perceived threats to national security.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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AP/Chris Carlson
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By Bill Boyarsky — Issues of race and the LAPD have been raised once again in the case of Christopher Dorner, a dismissed African-American cop accused of killing four people before apparently losing his life in a gunfight with police and subsequent fire.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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By William Pfaff — In 2009, the former head of the international law department of Israel’s military establishment, Daniel Reisner, said that “International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it.”
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — I disagreed with former President George W. Bush on many things. But on one issue, I admired him greatly: He was wise enough to marry a teacher and a librarian.
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Here’s a get-out-of-jail-free card, and while we’re at it, take this obscenely huge bonus for having wrecked the economy.
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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By Bill Blum — Just when you thought the debate over gun control couldn’t get any more twisted, the old claim has been revived that slavery might not have lasted so long in America if black people had been granted the right to bear arms at the outset of their arrival in the new world.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — As Southern whites sink into economic and cultural despair, more and more are retreating into a fictional past. They ignore Confederate atrocities in a desperate effort to restore what they view as a lost paradise.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If you care about deficits, you should want our economy to grow faster. If you care about lifting up the poor and reducing unemployment, you should want our economy to grow faster. And if you are a committed capitalist and hope to make more money, you should want our economy to grow faster.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Reagan Library
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — To understand how Barack Obama sees himself and his presidency, don’t look to Franklin Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — The overall failure of American foreign policy during the first Obama presidency was foreseeable.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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White House/Chuck Kennedy
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By Eugene Robinson — Reflect for a moment: A black man stood on the Capitol steps and took the oath of office as president of the United States. For the second time. Meaning that voters not only elected him once—which could be a fluke, a blip, an aberration, a cosmic accident—but turned around and did it again.
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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Kelly Branan
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More than 40 years after his death, Martin Luther King Jr., one of the great prophets of American democracy, has been reduced to little more than a lifeless statue. Yet his courageous call for peace and criticism of his government at a time of war must not be lost to history.
Posted on Jan 20, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Jan 19, 2013
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Still from "Zero Dark Thirty," released by Columbia Pictures.
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By Robert Scheer — Why aren’t film director Kathryn Bigelow’s claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Pfc. Bradley Manning?
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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U.S. Navy/MC1 Eileen Kelly Fors
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By William Pfaff — The utopian and missionary qualities of American political belief began in the Puritans’ Calvinist theology of “the Elect,” the chosen people.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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AP/Andy Wong
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By Bhuchung D. Sonam —
Beijing is wiping out indigenous culture on the Tibetan Plateau. In protest, 98 people have set themselves on fire since 2009.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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By Susan Zakin — When “Zero Dark Thirty” opens nationally Friday, many moviegoers will already have made up their minds.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Whatever Chuck Hagel’s perspective on Mideast policy may be, it would be absurd to compare him with the secretary of defense whose hardline hostility toward Israel became notorious during the Reagan administration.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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Canines have more to do with presidential elections than one might think; the conditions in which alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was detained were “excessive,” a military judge found; meanwhile, The Associated Press has started selling sponsored tweets on its Twitter feed. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Screenshot via "Killing Trailer"
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The Fox News host and Hollywood star seem like an unlikely pair to work together on anything, but both men are associated with the National Geographic Channel’s new film. Click on the story to watch the trailer.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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French actor Gerard Depardieu has resorted to becoming Russian in order to avoid paying taxes in France, with a little help from Vladimir Putin of course; Jane Harman is being considered for CIA director, despite her past involvement in an Israeli intelligence influence operation; meanwhile, the Obama administration has been compiling a database that helps it determine how to treat a suspected terrorist. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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