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    James K. Galbraith 

    We Told You So
      By James K. Galbraith, The Baffler The following piece first appeared in Issue 19 of The Baffler and is reprinted with permission. Like many Americans, I was doing everything I could to help elect Barack Obama. It wasn’t all that ...

    Wednesday, 23 May 2012

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    Gareth Porter 

    Evidence Mounts That Afghan Massacre Was Linked to Special Operations Forces' Response to Improvised
      By Gareth Porter and Shah Nouri, Truthout (Photo: Whitney Hughes / National Guard; Edited: JR / TO)Interviews with survivors, relatives of the civilians massacred in Panjwai on March 11, and with other local residents add new evidence suggesting ...

    Wednesday, 23 May 2012

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    Shikha Dalmia 

    Islamist Extremism Is Not Driving Egypt's Presidential Election
    by Shikha Dalmia. How Egyptians are trying to divide power between the country's problematic players There is no predestination in human affairs, so it is impossible to predict what a post-Arab Spring Egypt will ultimately look like. It might well degenerate into ...

    Wednesday, 23 May 2012

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    Diane Kalen-Sukra 

    Occupy your labour bureaucracy: An insider's call
    by Diane Kalen-Sukra. I always figured the labour movement was the right sort of social force to ensure a society stays free and democratic. It belongs to working people, is paid for by working people and champions values worth dying for ...

    Wednesday, 23 May 2012

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    Danny Schechter 

    Not Letting The Facts Get In The Way of A Vicious Attack Against Candidates and Whistle Blowers
    By Danny Schechter. Increasingly, politics is a game driven by often-invented beliefs and myths that are firmly detached from facts and their interpretation. The parties and their factions live not only in parallel universes but worlds of information that are driven ...

    Wednesday, 23 May 2012

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    David Swanson 

    Chicago: Peace Town
      By David Swanson. This article was first published on War Is A Crime. A huge crowd gathered for several hours and marched for over ...

    Tuesday, 22 May 2012

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    Ray McGovern 

    Applying the Six-Day War to Iran
    By Ray McGovern. This article was first published on Consortium News. America’s neocons continue to beat the drums for war with Iran, brushing aside warnings even from Israeli intelligence veterans. Another part of the propaganda is to merge a ...

    Saturday, 19 May 2012

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    Phyllis Bennis 

    Palestinian Hunger Strikers and U.S. Veterans Returning Service Medals Lead Movements for Peace
    In a rare victory for human rights in a part of the world far more familiar with human rights violations, Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike won major concessions from the Israeli occupying forces. Their ...

    Thursday, 17 May 2012

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    William Fisher 

    Who'll Have the Last Laugh?
    By William Fisher Andrew Rosenthal, the editor of the editorial pages for the New York Times, was practically ecstatic. He wrote: "Over the last several years, two private military contractors linked to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib have been ...

    Thursday, 17 May 2012

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