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By George Orwell
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By Ralph Nader —
If President Obama sweats the small stuff, he will empower the American people to take greater charge of their government and their future over the destructive and cowardly corporatism that now dominates Washington, D.C.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Transgender people face discrimination every time they go to restrooms marked men or women; as the NSA destroys our sense of privacy, perhaps rather than looking to Orwell’s “1984,” we should brush up on our Kafka; meanwhile, journalist Phyllis Richman responds decades later to a misogynistic letter from a Harvard professor regarding married women pursuing graduate studies. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Responding to a plea from members of Congress to change the Washington Redskins’ bigoted name, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote, “The name is a unifying force that stands for strength, courage, pride and respect.”
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a lawmaker makes history on the U.S. Senate floor and outgoing Congresswoman Michele Bachmann continues to fundraise on her campaign site.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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Although it’s true that people tend to feel better about presidents the further removed they are from office, not every president is George W. Bush.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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In the wake of the National Security Agency snooping revelations, George Orwell’s dystopian novel is experiencing a renaissance.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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When the Senate passed the Patriot Act after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, only one senator voted against it: Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin. At the time, he expressed concern over where it could lead. And in the wake of revelations about the scope of NSA surveillance, it turns out the former senator’s fears were completely justified.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Economic determinists—fatalists, really—assume that globalization and technological change must now condemn a large portion of the American workforce to under-unemployment and stagnant wages, while rewarding those with the best eductions and connections with ever higher wages and wealth.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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By Bill Blum — Despite constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure, the Supreme Court and Congress have given the other branch of American government extraordinary power.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a petition to pardon NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden is created and a former colleague of Fox News host Sean Hannity has some tough criticism for him.
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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Michelle Obama’s confrontation with a lesbian activist signals the beginning of a push to turn up the heat on the president by the LGBT community; Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s calling protesters “looters” exemplifies why his country is seeing so much unrest; meanwhile, as Occupy Wall Street participants exerted their First Amendment rights, their cellphones were being logged. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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“It can’t be overestimated to this democracy,” Daniel Ellsberg told CNN on Sunday night. “It gives us a chance, I think, from drawing back from the total surveillance state that we could say we’re in process of becoming, I’m afraid we have become. That’s what he’s revealed.”
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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AP/Patrick Semansky
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By Chris Hedges — With a “Nuremberg defense” and other key avenues blocked by the judge in his trial, the Army private has been left with little option but to beg for mercy from the court. The erosion of judicial protection for those who expose state crimes is a dire development.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In politics, we often skip past the simple questions. This is why inquiries about the fundamentals can sometimes catch everyone short. Michael Lind, the independent-minded scholar, posed one such question last week about libertarianism that I hope will shake up the political world.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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In an interview with The Guardian, the man who was revealed Sunday to be the source behind the British newspaper’s recent NSA stories explains to Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill why he became a whistle-blower, when he decided to leak the documents, what he expects to happen to him now and whether he sees himself as another Bradley Manning.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” the Kentucky Republican said he was looking into filing a class-action lawsuit against the federal government over the National Security Agency’s surveillance of phone records and Internet data.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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On the heels of breaking the bombshell stories about the National Security Agency’s secret phone surveillance and data-mining programs, the Guardian columnist hinted on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that these reports were just the beginning.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
Each year hundreds of billions of dollars in federal government contracts, grants, leaseholds and licenses are awarded to corporations. Taxpayers should be able to easily access clear and concise information on how their tax dollars are being spent by the government at all levels.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when tea partyers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They’ve basically shut Congress down.
Posted on Jun 9, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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Studies show nations such as Ghana and El Salvador reject gays far more than their more affluent counterparts; Wisconsin legislators are trampling on investigative journalism; meanwhile, the modern manufacturing industry manages to be both a tremendous economic driver and a tough business in which to get a job. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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By Louise Rubacky — It’s dire but simple: There are no longer any essential resources for economic expansion or survival that are abundant, accessible or safe to obtain.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What is President Obama fighting for? What is the point of his second term?
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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A sexist article in The New York Times tries to make it sound like male aides carrying female politicians’ handbags is wrong and, perhaps worse, newsworthy; members of the LGBT community are being treated like second-class citizens in America; meanwhile, a company relied on the First Amendment to justify its immoral use of private information found on pharmaceutical prescriptions. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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