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By Eugene Robinson — The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated incident. But it is part of a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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By Bill Blum — According to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, more than 70 percent of Americans support the death penalty for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is found guilty of perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombing.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Forget the CIA. The Federal Communications Commission is like the fourth branch of American government, and its officials are not elected.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The already tepid reforms enacted by Dodd-Frank are falling prey to business leaders, Republican lawmakers and the son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists—and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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By William Pfaff — War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen.
Posted on Apr 9, 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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It’s been more than a year since she stopped her White House run, but the disastrous, slow-moving train wreck that constitutes the congresswoman’s failed 2012 presidential bid is still going.
Posted on Mar 25, 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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By David Sirota — Why are ideas widely supported in most of the country so often portrayed as controversial, polarizing and divisive once they are taken up by legislatures?
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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"American Gothic" by Grant Wood.
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By Bill Boyarsky — The opponents of same-sex marriage are certainly an unromantic bunch. That grim vision hit me as I read the arguments submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court for and against Proposition 8.
Posted on Mar 8, 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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Certain Supreme Court justices were critical of the Voting Rights Act as they listened to oral arguments Wednesday in a case challening a key portion of the civil rights legislation.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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AP/Evan Vucci
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Pleading guilty to fraud and facing as many as five years in prison, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. tearfully acknowledged Wednesday that he was losing one of the rights for which his father fought.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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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 Peter Z. Scheer — President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address was so wide ranging and inclusive, it’s almost difficult to recall the most ambitious proposals.
Posted on Feb 12, 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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AP/Khalil Hamra
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — He couldn’t have been more than 19. His clothes were cheap and his sparse yet unshaven facial hair was indistinguishable from the dirt on his cheeks. He was with another kid on the other side of a kiosk and couldn’t see that I was listening.
Posted on Feb 11, 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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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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By David Sirota — After more than a week of residual buzz from radio host Alex Jones’ now-famous meltdown during a CNN discussion of gun control, it is worth taking a deep breath and considering the spectacle’s two big lessons, especially now that the White House is pushing Congress to debate firearm legislation.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Aaron Swartz wanted nothing more than to change the world. He was doing just that until he ended his own life, at the age of 26, on Jan. 11.
Posted on Jan 17, 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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Photo by Taber Andrew Bain (CC-BY)
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Homeowner advocates and some lawmakers are upset that an $8.5 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other banks over improper foreclosures would let lenders off the hook both financially and legally.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The security and surveillance state, recently released FBI documents show, monitors even mainstream dissenters and is determined to shut down all organized resistance to corporate rule. The goal: an encompassing system of pervasive fear and overt intimidation.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Should our politicians dedicate themselves to solving the problems we face now? Or should they spend their time constructing largely theoretical deficit solutions for years far in the future to satisfy certain ideological and aesthetic urges?
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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If corporations are people, then they should count toward the carpool lane, argues Jonathan Frieman of San Rafael, Calif. The cop who ticketed Frieman didn’t buy it, but Frieman is of course really looking for an opportunity to challenge the judiciary’s plainly absurd rulings on corporate personhood.
Posted on Jan 6, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Amidst the White House and congressional theatrics surrounding the so-called fiscal-cliff negotiations, a number of bills were signed into law by President Barack Obama that renew some of the worst excesses of the Bush years.
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — While the final funerals for the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre have been held, gun violence continues apace, most notably with the Christmas Eve murder of two volunteer firefighters in rural Webster, N.Y., at the hands of an ex-convict who was armed, as was the Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, with a Bushmaster .223 caliber AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Politicians who are too craven or stupid or ideologically rigid to finally move forward on gun control will have the blood of future victims on their hands.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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AP/Patrick Semansky
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By Robert Scheer — The major news outlets that were thrilled to profit from the information that Bradley Manning uncovered are deeply afraid of being associated with the brave whistle-blower himself.
Posted on Dec 14, 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 Ralph Nader —
Barack Obama, former president of the Harvard Law Review and a constitutional law lecturer, should go back and review his course work. He seems to have declined to comport his presidency to the rule of law.
Posted on Dec 1, 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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White House/Pete Souza
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The president put his seal of approval Tuesday on legislation extending support to federal employees who reveal fraud, graft and abuse.
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
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AP/Gerald Herbert
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By Bill Blum — The justice has expressed contempt for the sitting president and is ready for a leading ideological role.
Posted on Nov 27, 2012
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The New York Times reports that there is internal strife within the administration about the willy-nilly use of drones to kill people abroad (2,500 since President Obama took office) and, fearing defeat at the polls, the Obama administration was working overtime to lay down a set of rules governing robotic assassination.
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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Will Hutton, writing in The Observer, says the “precious freedom of speech of an individual is different from the freedom of speech of a media corporation with its capacity to manipulate the opinions of millions.”
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia.
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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