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October 29, 2012

Why I’m Voting Green

The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.


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The Final Days, the Biggest Issue, and the Clearest Choice


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Published on October 29, 2012 03:22

October 21, 2012

McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul

The history books will tell you Richard Nixon won the 1972 election, that George McGovern went down to the worst defeat of any presidential candidate in history. But those who write history do not take into account the moral or the good, what is right or what is wrong, what endures and what does not.


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Man Obsessed With Fox News and GOP Jailed Over Threats to Kill ‘Liberal’ Girlfriend


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Speaking Truth on the Fifth of July


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Published on October 21, 2012 12:17

October 15, 2012

Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline

The planned route of this six-state, 1,700-mile proposed pipeline is fast becoming a flashpoint in the war of attrition against the corporate state.


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Krugman: ‘Ugly Reality’ of the Romney-Ryan Health Care Plan


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Published on October 15, 2012 04:03

October 7, 2012

The Maimed

Chris Hedges gave this talk Sunday night in New York City at a protest denouncing the 11th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan.


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Stifled Lives in the Kingdom


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This Far-Right Supreme Court Is Reason Enough to Vote Obama


This Far-Right Supreme Court Is Reason Enough to Vote Obama







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Published on October 07, 2012 23:48

October 1, 2012

September 24, 2012

How Do You Take Your Poison?

We can take it from nurse Romney or we can take it from nurse Obama, but one way or another the corporate hemlock will be shoved down our throats.


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Published on September 24, 2012 04:12

September 17, 2012

We Won—for Now

In January I sued President Barack Obama for authorizing the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in short, just declared the law unconstitutional.


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Why Romney and Ryan Are Going Down


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We Vote, They Rule: The Case for Voter Rebellion


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Published on September 17, 2012 01:04

We Won—For Now

In January I sued President Barack Obama for authorizing the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in short, just declared the law unconstitutional.


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Rule of Law Trampled for Bradley Manning


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Published on September 17, 2012 01:04

September 10, 2012

Growth Is the Problem

The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let’s not revive it.


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Published on September 10, 2012 05:12

September 3, 2012

Life Is Sacred

The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world—the one steadily collapsing around us.


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Betty White to Introduce Obama at Democratic National Convention?


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Tampa Defines the Charlotte Imperative







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Published on September 03, 2012 03:54

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