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The Israel Lobby Swims The Atlantic (Grant Smith)
Aug. 20, 1020 -- (Antiwar) -- Jeffrey Goldberg’s current cover story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” achieved massive distribution across a broad spectrum of old and new media in the ...
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Other Countries Probing Bush-era Torture — Why aren't we? (Shashank Bengali)
Aug. 20, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (McClatchy) -- In June, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Canadian man who contends that U.S. authorities mistook him for an al Qaida operative in 2002 and ...
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Deconstructing the Official Narrative on the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Aug. 20, 2010 -- (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Iraq is back in the news, at least for a moment. The occasion is "A truly historic end to seven years of war," in the words of Lt. Col Mark ...
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Food And Farming: The Hub Of Planetary Transformation (Carolyn Baker)
Carolyn Baker Interviews Michael Brownlee Aug. 19, 2010 -- For several years, Michael Brownlee and Lynnette-Marie Hanthorn have pioneered relocalization in Boulder County, Colorado. Their latest ...
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Trapped at Ground Zero (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2010 -- The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, ...
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Vacation Special -- Excerpt from "The Witch of Hebron" (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 14, 2010 -- The Witch of Hebron is the sequel to World Made By Hand, a story of the post-oil American future. It is set in and around the town of Union ...
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Wake Up Obama (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2010 -- If the United States is not kaput it is certainly withering away even as a rich upper class enjoys all the things that money buys. There is ...
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Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)
Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High ...
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The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous (Glenn Greenwald)
Aug. 9, 2010 (Cato Unbound) -- It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less ...
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Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house ...
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This Economy Stinks, Yes it Does (Dean Baker)
Aug. 10, 2010 (Truthout) -- If there were any doubts about the health of the economy, two reports issued in the last ten days should have eliminated them. First the second quarter GDP showed the ...
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