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05 October 2007
Sputnik, 50 years later: the launch of techno-power
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Norman Solomon
A story could start almost anywhere. This one begins at a moment startled by a rocket.

In the autumn of 1957, America was not at war ... or at peace. The threat of nuclear annihilation shadowed every day, flickering with...
02 October 2007
Exactly how the good guys finally won
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David Swanson
The leaders of today's Congress have made clear through numerous lobby visits that unless we can produce polls that show congressional elections in November 2008 hang on the question of impeachment, nobody's going to be impeached. Bush and...
02 October 2007
Preempting the next war
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Paul Loeb
With the Senate embracing the reckless Kyl-Lieberman amendment, we've moved one step closer to attacking Iran. But there's still time for Congress to assert itself against yet another needless war with massive destructive potential. By...
01 October 2007
Political "science" and truth of consequences
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Norman Solomon
Contempt for the empirical that can’t be readily jiggered or spun is evident at the top of the executive branch in Washington. The country is mired in a discourse that echoes the Scopes trial dramatized in “Inherit the Wind.” Mere...
30 September 2007
Whistleblowers on tape
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David Swanson
While they may not be in Congress, there are members of our government willing to risk their careers and more to blow the whistle on the criminal takeover of our former democracy.  One of them is Sam Provance.

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29 September 2007
Presidential candidates diverge
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David Swanson
There are now two types of Democratic presidential candidates, the ones who promise to end the occupation of Iraq, and the ones who say they may very well keep it going for another four years.

MSNBC hosted another Democratic...

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