Politics
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Deconstructing the Official Narrative on the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Aug. 20, 2010 -- (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Iraq is back in the news, at least for a moment. The occasion is "A truly historic end to seven years of war," in the words of Lt. Col Mark ...
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Trapped at Ground Zero (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2010 -- The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, ...
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Wake Up Obama (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2010 -- If the United States is not kaput it is certainly withering away even as a rich upper class enjoys all the things that money buys. There is ...
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The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous (Glenn Greenwald)
Aug. 9, 2010 (Cato Unbound) -- It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less ...
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Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house ...
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This Economy Stinks, Yes it Does (Dean Baker)
Aug. 10, 2010 (Truthout) -- If there were any doubts about the health of the economy, two reports issued in the last ten days should have eliminated them. First the second quarter GDP showed the ...
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U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know (Laurence Kotlikoff)
Aug. 10, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, ...
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Four Deformations of the Apocalypse (David Stockman)
July 31, 2010 (New York Times) -- If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The ...
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Rachel Maddow Misses Journalistic Opportunity (Joel S. Hirschhhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhhorn -- World News Trust Aug. 10, 2010 -- On her August 9 show on MSNBC Rachel Maddow went for an easy attack on those seeking government reforms through constitutional amendments, ...
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Three Days to Revolution (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 9, 2010 -- Rage is born of desperation; it is incubated and nurtured by ignorance and neglect. It is fathered by the unfeeling and uncaring, the safe and ...
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Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 5, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his old passenger van from the ...
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