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The truth is, Israel doesn’t want peace
Map via Americans for Peace Now: Facts on the Ground Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told us once Israel wants peace: “The truth is, Israel wants peace, and the truth is, the Palestinians are doing...
View ArticleVan Hollen, Geithner reassure on earned benefits — but just for now
Ten days ago I wrote about this statement by my Congressman, Chris Van Hollen, to a Wall Street Journal symposium: I think there are other things you can do — look, I’m open to a conversation about...
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Nailing down the new normal: Walmart, Obamacare, and part-time, low wage America
Last week the Huffington Post’s Alice Hines reported, Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a...
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Zero Dark de Triomphe
Roy Edroso takes on Glenn Greenwald’s recent piece on the upcoming “Zero Dark Thirty” movie, and rightly identifies several passages undermining Greenwald’s claim as “disingenuous” that his piece is...
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The photograph that ought to defeat the NRA
Children led from Sandy Hook ES in Newtown, CT after shooter rampage, told to keep their eyes shut on their way out to keep from seeing blood and dead victims, and still following those instructions...
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The Monday after: “Stop the NRA” rally on Capitol Hill
Stop the NRA Emergency March (click for Facebook event page) I’ve rarely been as upset by an event as by the Newtown killings; the only similar thing I can think of right now is 9/11. On learning of...
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The “Zero Dark Thirty” interbranch torture propaganda war
…followed by the highest-grossing propaganda effort in history? The makers of “Zero Dark Thirty” may have just learned that there is such a thing as bad publicity. Peter Bergen (CNN) reports: On...
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The FBI and Occupy: sometimes it ain’t paranoia
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) has obtained FBI documents detailing the agency’s national efforts to monitor the Occupy Wall Street movement. Click here for more. Last week, the...
View ArticleDelhi
That poor woman. This has saddened the whole world. Today, UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon released this statement, and bless him for it: The Secretary-General expresses deep sorrow at the death of...
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With regrets, indeed: confessions of a one-time Iraq war supporter
On the 10th anniversary of the single worst decision in U.S. history, my longtime online friend Aziz Poonawalla asked me to let him post a blog posting of mine from February 13, 2003 – With regrets:...
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Marijuana reform in Maryland — time to pitch in
Substance abuse policy is hard; on the one hand, no one wants more harm from the overuse of alcohol or drugs. Those harms vary in intensity from one substance to the next, but include both harms to...
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