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May 9, 2010
After Religion Fizzles, We're Stuck With Nietzsche
The traditional religious institutions are in irreversible decline. They have nothing left to say. And their aging congregants, who are fleeing the church in droves, know it. But don't think the world will be a better place for their demise.
May 3, 2010
No One Cares
We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. The peace movement, despite the heroic efforts of a handful of groups, is dead.
April 26, 2010
The New Secessionists
The difference between the tea party and the secessionist movement bubbling up in some two dozen states is that the tea party believes America can be fixed.
April 21, 2010
Chris Hedges on Poverty and the Permanent Lower Class
In an April 10 speech for the Poverty Initiative, at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Chris Hedges cuts right to the chase: "I think we have to face the fact that the Poverty Initiative and the civil rights movement failed," he says.
May 24, 2010 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Compromise Could Pass This Week
May 24, 2010 Secret U.S. Plans for Clandestine Mideast Military Activity Brought to Light
April 19, 2010
Noam Chomsky Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'
America's greatest intellectual says, "The mood of the country is frightening. The level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions is not organized in a constructive way. It is going off into self-destructive fantasies."
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