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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comThe underlying divisions in the healthcare debate
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Job losses send disability claims soaring - The Elkhart Project- msnbc.comWith an aching shoulder and sore hip, Michael Spratt figured he’d have to apply for disability benefits someday. He just didn’t think that day would come so soon. The 57-year-old was laid off from his job unloading chemicals from tanker trucks at the Rollie Williams Paint Spot in Elkhart, Ind., ...
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Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated) | Danger Room | Wired.comTapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to electronic interception, multiple military sources tell Danger Room. That means militants have the ability ...
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Obama's Indecent Interval | Foreign Policy"In his speech, the president offered three reasons why the two conflicts are different. And all are dead wrong"
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Jeffrey Sachs: A Better Strategy for AfghanistanWe will spend around $100 billion in 2010 on the military approach compared with just $2 billion or so on economic development in Afghanistan, a 50-to-1 ratio. If we raised the development budget to even $10 billion, and deployed it thoughtfully and consistently, the benefits for the Afghan ...
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Robert J. Elisberg: What It Takes to Make a Republican MadRepublicans weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney lied America into a war against a nation that didn't attack us and didn't have any Weapons of Mass Destruction. They weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney pulled troops out of Afghanistan that was harboring the actual terrorists ...
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Mike Papantonio: GOP Purity Test Echoes Berlin in 1933The last time we saw a political party demand ideological purity was Berlin 1933. It did not end well. One GOP candidate who obviously felt foolish endorsing this new political purity was Dede Scozzafava. She was the Republican that tea partiers forced out of the race in the 23rd Congressional ...
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Congressman Kucinich’s Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine | CommonDreams.orgFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2009 11:07 AM CONTACT: Congressman Dennis Kucinich Nathan White (202)225-5871 Congressman Kucinich’s Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine WASHINGTON - December 11 - “Yesterday, our president mused about the inevitability of war, war’s ...
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Editorial - Photos and Freedom - NYTimes.comPhotos and Freedom In a sad but unsurprising denouement this week, the Supreme Court tossed out a federal appellate court ruling that would have required the government to release photographs of soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. The vacated ...
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Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests | World | AlterNetObama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests The president's announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan this week prompted protests in over 80 communities across the country. CODEPINK issued an alert on Thursday, December 3 , about the ...
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