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Republican chickens come home to roost in Tucson - First Post

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Six dead and Gabrielle Giffords, a 40-year old congresswoman, hanging to life by a thread. In the wake of the lethal fusillade in ...

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The American Way of Torture - HomepageDaily

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Torture is now solidly installed in America's repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and ...

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The Demon in Pakistan's Soul - CounterPunch

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To say that Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was equally controversial and courageous when he expressed his views is an understatement. ...

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The American Way of Torture - truthout

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Alexander Cockburn is co-editor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch. He is also co-author of the new book "Dime's Worth of ...

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Why Bradley Manning is fighting for his sanity - First Post

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For the past seven months, 22-year-old US Army Private Bradley Manning, first in an army prison in Kuwait, now in the brig in Quantico ...

Making the Rich Happy - HomepageDaily

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By Sumer Dayal (UNSW, Sydney) After years of discourse and moooooonths of debate, Barack Obama has finally repealed America's "Don't ...

Back from the brink: President Obama, Mk II - First Post

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Nicely in time for the end-of-year job ratings, President Obama has crawled from the political graveyard, where only a month ago ...

Israel-Palestine conflict: peace in Obama's time? - First Post

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Alexander Cockburn: There are two scenarios that could bring a just peace in 2011. They are both long shots... By Alexander Cockburn Can anything be more ...

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The Empire Strikes Back - Bulatlat

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The WikiLeaks sites have vanished — though more than 1400 mirror sites still carry the disclosures. Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal ...

The Empire strikes back against WikiLeaks - First Post

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The WikiLeaks sites have vanished — though more than 1400 mirror sites still carry the disclosures. Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal ...