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Environmentalist Faces 10 Years for Bids to Stop Drilling
AP reports today: “Environmental activ…
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Prosecuting Manning for WikiLeaks: “Killing the Messenger”
Glenn Greenwald writes today: “The U.S.…
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Wrong Kind of Intelligence: U.S. Killing Children in Afghanistan
Kelly and Brollier are with Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Kelly said today: “The drone intelligence and all of the other surveillance available to the U.S. military couldn’t help bomber pilots figure out, on March 1, 2011, that the nine people they believed to be insurgents, on a mountainside in the Pech Valley, were actually children. An article reporting General Petraeus’s apology for the tragedy quoted a spokesperson who said that four of the nine boys killed were seven years old, three were eight, one was nine years old and one was twelve. One child was also wounded. He said the…
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More Cuts — Or Make Rich, Corporations Pay Up
RICHARD WOLFF Wolff just wrote the piece “…
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The Real “National Security” Budget: $1.2 Trillion a Year
CHRISTOPHER HELLMAN Hellman just wrote the pie…
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“Deficit Fears Irrational, Cuts Will Impede Recovery”
JAMES K. GALBRAITH, THEA HARVEY Chair of Econom…
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U.S. “Hypocrisy” on Libya and International Criminal Court
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called f…
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Wall Street Criminality: Origin of State Crises
Last night Charles Ferguson, director of ̶…
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Palestinians, Israel and Freedom and Democracy
AHMET DOGAN, via Ann Wright, Greta Berlin Profe…
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Libya
Chair of the department of political science at the University of New England, Ahmida’s books include The Making of Modern Libya and Forgotten Voices: Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya — largely about the little-known Italian genocide in Libya of 100 years ago. He said today: “Despite the brutal backlash it is too late for the regime; Libyan people are rising and fighting for change.” The new online journal Jadaliyya just posted an audio of an interview with Ahmida.
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