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The extent to which many “liberal left” Democrats and hard-right Republicans will go to convince themselves and/or others that Barack Obama is really a left progressive is quite remarkable....

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Every presidential candidacy relies on a myth. Reagan was a great communicator; Clinton felt your pain. Both storylines were ridiculous. But rarely are the constructs used to market a party nominee...

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Although Bill Gates now has one philanthropic foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this foundation has its roots in two of Gates’ earlier philanthropic projects: the first of these...

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Over the last six months, the Palestinian economy has been radically transformed under a new plan drawn up by the Palestinian Authority (PA) called the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan...

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The French Quarter vibrates with sounds and smells of perpetual Spring Break. Was a film crew shooting the young men and women, drinks in hands, screaming "let's party." No. The celebrants were...
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I recently reached David Sirota via email in the middle of his grueling months-long book promotion tour. He was "exhausted and tired from the tour" and "hiding out" over the 4th of July weekend at...

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Supporters say that biofuels like ethanol will save the planet from environmental disaster. But this corporate, market-based "solution" to the crisis is no solution at all.

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The residents of the town of Ni'lin continue to fight Israel's efforts to take away their land. Is anyone listening?

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Today is Bastille Day in France, a national holiday that marks a key event of the French Revolution. It's the perfect time, especially in this year marking the 40th anniversary of les événements...

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Post-9/11, torture has been official US policy under George Bush - authorized at the highest levels of government. Evidence of its systematic practice continues to surface...

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The Israeli separation wall making its way through the West Bank cuts to the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli issue: Will the final settlement between these two peoples be negotiated, or imposed...
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For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have...
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South Asianists have long been fascinated by the dynastic trends in the region’s politics. Explaining the longevity of the Nehru-Gandhi family in India, the Bandaranaikes in Sri Lanka, and the...

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McCain proposed offshore drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, attempting to show he cares about lowering gas prices for everyday Americans. Despite the inability of this drilling to lower...

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General Motors Corp on Tuesday announced a plan to cut costs by $10 billion, suspend its common stock dividend and sell up to $4 billion in assets in a bid to shore up cash and survive a deep...

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As the Abu Ghraib scandal demonstrates, a photo is worth a thousand words -- even if, as Errol Morris’ newly-released documentary Standard Operating Procedure demonstrates, those words are...

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In October, Erik Prince, the 39-year-old CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, a leading private security company operating in Iraq, went into damage-control mode. Blackwater employees in Baghdad's Nisour...

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Recently, Washington's man in Baghdad Nouri al-Maliki has been making noises about the need to set a "hard" timetable detailing the departure of US occupation forces from Iraq. One wonders if Mr....

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For years, "oil" and "Iraq" couldn't make it into the same sentence in mainstream coverage of the invasion and occupation of that country. Recently, that's begun to change, but "oil" and "the...

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When will it end, this crushing rise in the price of gasoline, now averaging $4.10 a gallon at the pump? The short answer is simple: "Not soon."

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Listening to Liz Phair's debut Exile in Guyville, recently reissued by ATO Records after years out of print, it's striking how fresh and new the album sounds. It's raw, coarse, cocky and...
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Barack Obama restated his Iraq phased withdrawal play in response to public questioning today but committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Recently I had a conversation with a Left friend who agrees with me that the Democratic Party’s ever-more right-leaning presidential nominee Barack Obama is a corporate-sponsored militarist who...

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Fresh water is precious everywhere but especially in one of the driest, hottest places on earth - the Middle East. It's why it's a strategic resource and the reason countries like Israel do...

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The first thing a visitor to Curitiba, Brazil sees upon arriving at the city’s bus terminal is a line of aged boxcars just across the street. Left out in front of the old train depot, the broken...

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Anyone who wants to guess whether Israel and/or the United States are going to attack Iran should look at the map of the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.

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Representative Dennis Kucinich took another bold step today in calling for the impeachment of the President of the United States and his removal from office for deceiving congress with fabricated...

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I am currently sitting in my very reasonable apartment in the Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue guest house, typing at a laptop that is sitting on a dresser and using a...
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Like many of the world’s richest businessmen Bill Gates believes in a special form of democracy, otherwise known as plutocracy, that is, “socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor”....

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The globalization of capital that has undermined workers everywhere finally has brought about moves for the globalization of labor. Finally, unions worldwide are seriously heeding Karl Marx' plea...

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While briefly sidelined in the media by the celebrated release of 15 hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on July 2, the Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe Vélez,...

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There are two ways of looking at the direction Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has taken since he effectively secured the Democratic nomination early last month. One is that he is doing what...

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It has not always been so hard to map the frontiers of North Atlantic Treaty Organization country foreign policy beyond which US imperialism goes it alone. Nor, until now, have NATO countries'...

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