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Whats Next For FISA?
Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
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McGovern Still on the Antiwar Path
The retired senator and former ambassador to the United Nations is stumping for a book he co-wrote with foreign policy analyst William R. Polk called Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now while buttonholing dozens of members of Congress and urging our immediate withdrawal from Iraq
Laura S. Washington
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Warning: Drug Ads Can Make You Sick
A $4.2 billion annual drug industry incessantly reinforces the medicalization of complaints through direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising
Terry J. Allen
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No Talking to the Enemy
Both the U.S. and Iranian governments have been stopped dialogues between citizens seeking peaceful resolution
Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
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Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex
Barely regulated banks are getting away with one usurious practice after the next: not only the subprime fiasco, but the extortionate service fees on your bank accounts and the escalating interest fees, late fees and truncated payment cycles on your credit cards
Susan J. Douglas
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The End of Impunity?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is trying to revive efforts to hold the Bush administration accountable
Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
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Come on Cosby, Stop Hatin’
Cosby makes blanket indictments of an entire class of black people and offers only exhortations from the sidelines
Salim Muwakkil
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The Boy Who Cried WMD
It's time for George W. Bush to holster his guns and ride off into that Wild West sunset only he can see
Sanhita SinhaRoy
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Third Time’s the Charm?
The military didn't even bother to retain most of the documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals conducted in 2004, so the government has no documents showing any reason for holding these men
H. Candace Gorman
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Primary Importance
For leaders of interest groups and social movements, power comes from being able to show elected officials that you know who, where, and how numerous these hell-or-high-water voters are within your ranks, and within their districts, at all times
Hans Johnson
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Anthropologists on the Front Lines
The Pentagon's new program to embed anthropologists with combat brigades raises many concerns
Lindsay Beyerstein
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U.S. Lobbyists Assault E.U. Regs
Why is the United States, which practically invented consumer protection, now lagging behind the E.U., and in some cases, trailing Japan, China and Mexico?
Terry J. Allen
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Harold Washington Remembered
Washington's candidacy forged political unity among Chicago's notoriously fractious black community and helped bring the city's feuding Latino groups (including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) together
Salim Muwakkil
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Talking American Democracy in China
Chinese democracy does not involve much voting, awareness of how the government works, information about politics, or what I like to call "facts," yet the Chinese government claims to be democratic, and many of my Chinese friends will agree that this is true
Mike Levy
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Tax and Spend? Hell, Yeah!
Why does anyone need $50 million a year? What do you do with it--buy five houses in Aspen like Enron's Ken Lay did?
Susan J. Douglas
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Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right
Cosby's critics excoriated him for delivering his rant from an elitist ivory tower without offering solutions, arguing that the black poor are the helpless victims of white supremacy and institutional racism
Laura S. Washington
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The Accidental War
The Bush administration might not deliberately launch a war with Iran, heightened U.S.-Iran tensions could push some minor incident into a major conflict.
Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
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Treaty of Detroit Repealed
The new contracts demonstrate that companies without unions, global labor markets and corporate power are dictating the future for American autoworkers--even for those who are in a union
David Moberg
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Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change
Don't judge a climate cure by its color. Give it a rub, and you'll find that the term 'biofuels' is actually obscuring an insidious reality
Megan Tady
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The Disturbing Sounds of the Turkish March
The true problem with "militaristic humanism" resides not in "militaristic," but in "humanism," in the way a military intervention is presented as humanitarian aid
Slavoj Žižek
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Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
Harman doesn't believe homegrown terrorism is a major threat to U.S. security today, but that it is important to learn from experiences in other countries like Britain and Canada, where citizens have been inspired to commit terrorism at home by Islamic propagandists reaching out over the Internet
Lindsay Beyerstein
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E-Wasting Away in China
While the media ride their new lead-painted hobbyhorse--the danger of Chinese wares--spare a thought for Chinese workers dying to dispose of millions of tons of our toxic crap
Terry J. Allen
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Justice for Some
Restrictions on federal grants starve the poor of much-needed legal representation.
Megan Tady
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Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses
Race does matter in the caustic caldron of the post-Katrina era--the world still perceives us as "refugees"--permanently scarred victims to be forever adrift in tragedy
Laura S. Washington
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