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March 12, 2013

If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?

The U.S. government exists primarily to make the world safe for multinational corporations, but those firms feel no obligation to pay for that protection in return.

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March 12, 2013 Ryan the Redistributionist


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Published on March 12, 2013 02:32

March 5, 2013

Whiny Billionaires in Need of Sequestration

Where is the Occupy movement now that the depravity of the super rich is on full display?

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March 1, 2013 ‘Left, Right & Center’: Fiscal Cliff Forever, Saucy Scalia and Double Pope


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February 26, 2013

Oscar 2013: Hollywood’s CIA Celebration

What was Michelle Obama thinking? What if the card for “Zero Dark Thirty” had been lurking in that best picture envelope Sunday?

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February 22, 2013 Errors May Have Delayed Warning About Washington’s Leaky Nuclear Tanks


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Published on February 26, 2013 01:22

February 14, 2013

Senate Republicans Take a Stand Against the Public Interest

It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president’s nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.

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February 15, 2013 Water Break


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Published on February 14, 2013 23:04

February 7, 2013

America’s Global Torture Network

When it comes to torture in the post 9/11 era, the record of the United States is so appalling that one must question our claimed abhorrence of the barbarism of other nations. 

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February 8, 2013 An Interview with Marjorie Cohn About Targeted Killings


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Published on February 07, 2013 21:35

February 1, 2013

It’s Good to Be a Goldman

Here’s a get-out-of-jail-free card, and while we’re at it, take this obscenely huge bonus for having wrecked the economy.

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February 1, 2013 Drama Over Including Gays in Immigration Reform


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Published on February 01, 2013 01:32

January 18, 2013

Another Word For Propaganda

Why aren’t film director Kathryn Bigelow’s claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Pfc. Bradley Manning?

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January 15, 2013 God Loves Us and We Will Bomb You


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Another Word for Propaganda

Why aren’t film director Kathryn Bigelow’s claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Pfc. Bradley Manning?

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January 18, 2013 ‘Left, Right & Center’: Guns, Inauguration Day and the GOP Retreat


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Published on January 18, 2013 00:35

January 11, 2013

The Inconvenient Truth About Jack Lew

I suppose that he can’t be much worse than Timothy Geithner, but that should be scant cause for cheer over the news that the president has nominated Jack Lew as Treasury secretary.

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January 11, 2013 Race to Fix the System


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Published on January 11, 2013 00:57

December 28, 2012

Cerberus Collected Ex-Government Opportunists

How fitting that Dan Quayle, a bumbling excuse for a vice president of the United States, should end up as a top executive of a $20 billion private equity firm mired in controversy.

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December 21, 2012 ‘Left, Right & Center:’ Guns and the Naked Fiscal Cliff


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