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Maybe this “Obamacare” isn’t such a bad thing after all
It’s no surprise that so many righties can’t seem to grasp the grand reality of what Americans truly want. But, this isn’t the only issue the majority of Americans are being ignored on.
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Post-adolescence idealism
From Dr. King to today's dreamers suffer from this disease. I'm sure a pill is being developed that will alleviate that ailment, says the author. One can dream that there is no cure for…
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How Europe can learn from Latin America’s independence
Brazil's action over the detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner shows South American nations no longer toe Washington's line. And the British proved their loyalty.
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The environment: Finally?
Is it real that the Obama administration is finally getting serious about the environment, especially the critical issue of climate change? It would be a welcome change.
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It’s open warfare over the Fed
There is a a full-scale political campaign over who should replace Ben Bernanke as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. And President Obama alone makes that decision.
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CIA admits it was behind Iran’s coup
Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed…
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‘Defense’ does not defend
Taxpayers shell out hundreds of billions a year for this ambiguous word “defense,” and yet we are infinitely vulnerable. Defense is defined as “resistance against attack.” But we have…
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Why I changed my mind on weed (+Video)
In 2009, Dr. Sanjay Gupta wrote a TIME magazine article titled "Why I would Vote No on Pot." In this new article he changes his mind and apologizes “because I didn't look hard enough,…
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Provoking an American climate crisis
Before Hurricane Sandy last fall, we needed dystopian fiction writers to conjure images of NY's subway underwater... Now, global warming is taking over, which tells us that a climate…
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NSA broke privacy rules thousand of times, reports The Washington Post
Top secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA) “has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year.."
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