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11 June 2009
Words and war
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Norman Solomon
It takes at least tacit faith in massive violence to believe that after three decades of horrendous violence in Afghanistan, upping the violence there will improve the situation.

Despite the pronouncements from high...
11 June 2009
Justice for the privileged
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Robert Koehler
Take empathy out of the concept of justice and what you have left are rules: simple, mechanical, lifeless.

“Are we really going to insist,” Texas Sen. John Cornyn asked the other day, after President Obama talked about closing...
27 May 2009
Peace rising
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Robert Koehler
In sacred remembrance of all those we have killed, and are continuing to kill . . .

The flag waves, the heart stirs, the music rends the air. Memorial Day 2009. I stood at a bubbling fountain in downtown Chicago and listened...
24 May 2009
The Cheney Channel
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David Swanson
An association representing top advertisers on broadcast and cable television has proposed the creation of a new Cheney Channel dedicated exclusively to the Cheney family, the primary motivation apparently being to get Dick and Liz off all...
24 May 2009
Democratic Socialists? Democrats not half that good
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Bob Fitrakis
The Republican National Committee recently dropped its resolution to brand the moderate pro-corporate Democratic Party “Socialists.” As the late, great Democratic Socialist leader Michael Harrington liked to tell it when he testified...
21 May 2009
Priorities
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David Swanson
Is it important to counter the CIA's lies about what it told a handful of congress members when? Of course it is. It's important to expose every bit of the secrecy imposed by all agencies and departments of what we still rather goofily...

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