Friday, September 17, 2010

A Campaign to Free Bradley Manning

By Ann Wright
September 17, 2010

Bradley Manning is accused of telling the truth.

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Lee Hamilton, the Un-Wise Man

By Robert Parry
September 17, 2010

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has become the latest voice of influence to sing the praises of former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who is almost universally hailed in U.S. power circles as a modern-day Wise Man, a Democratic centrist who shuns partisanship and puts love of country over politics.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Nixon's Vengeful War on Marijuana

By William John Cox
September 16, 2010

In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond P. Shafer to chair a national commission to report on the effects of marijuana and other drugs and recommend appropriate drug policies. Though Shafer was a former prosecutor and was known as a "law and order" governor, he did not give Nixon the alarmist findings that the President wanted.

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The Great Muslim Scare

By Lawrence Davidson
September 16, 2010

In 1951, American working-class intellectual Eric Hoffer described those he called the “true believers,” people who start out alienated from their present conditions and suffering feelings of insecurity and uncertainty about the direction of their lives and communities.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

America's Decoupling from Reality

By Robert Parry
September 15, 2010

As Election Day 2010 approaches – as the United States wallows in the swamps of war, recession and environmental degradation – the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Great Britain's Brave New World

By Danny Schechter
September 14, 2010

London looks pretty much like it did the last time I was here except for all the closed stores and businesses I passed on the way to the War and Media Conference that brought me here.

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GOP Leaders Embrace Ugly Intolerance

By Michael Winship
September 14, 2010

Gentlemen, start your defibrillators. To baby boomers like me it gives the heart a bit of jolt to realize that 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the presidential campaign between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

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Rory Kennedy's "The Fence"

By Lisa Pease
September 14, 2010

Rory Kennedy's upcoming HBO documentary “The Fence” (“La Barba”) presents a compelling argument that the border fence, the subject of the film, is an ill-conceived and expensive mistake.

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Has US Empire Benefited the World?

By Ivan Eland
September 14, 2010

In a recent column, Thomas Friedman, probably the most influential “internationalist” — read: proponent of U.S. interventionism in faraway places — has finally discovered that the United States must soon turn inward and put domestic economic growth first because of its massive public debt, huge federal budget deficit, and looming fiscal crisis caused by a dramatic automatic escalation in entitlements spending.

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Monday, September 13, 2010

Marijuana 'Prohibition' on CA's Ballot

By Kevin Zeese
September 13, 2010

Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

US Hypocrisy Hobbles Human Rights

By Lawrence Davidson
September 12, 2010

On Aug. 23, Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip.

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