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![](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20120225134752im_/http:/=2fwww.truthdig.com/images/reportuploads/occupyinfiltrated_160.jpg) AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers —
In the first five months, the Occupy movement has had major victories and has altered the debate about the economy. People in the power structure and who hold different political views are pushing back with a traditional tool—infiltration.
Posted on Feb 24, 2012
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![](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20120225134752im_/http:/=2fwww.truthdig.com/images/reportuploads/obamaduncanclass_160.jpg) AP / Gerald Herbert
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By Bill Boyarsky — Countering the efforts of educational reformers—including President Obama and his Race to the Top crew—to blame teachers for student failures, researchers are finding that the growing gap between the affluent and the poor is the real villain.
Posted on Feb 24, 2012
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By virtue of their presence, and then by putting words and pictures to what they hear and see, journalists working in conflict zones practice the highest ideals of the profession and are able to not only recount events that have already happened but can also potentially affect future outcomes. That’s also what makes them targets.
Posted on Feb 24, 2012
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By David Sirota — Financed by the Pentagon, “Act of Valor” is a new film that seeks to make us forget our past military blunders.
Posted on Feb 24, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — We’ve heard this quickening drumbeat before. Last time, it led to the tragic invasion and occupation of Iraq. This time, if we let the drummers provoke us into war with Iran, the consequences will likely be far worse.
Posted on Feb 24, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — If this was the last Republican debate, or the last important one, it was as entertaining and revealing as most of the previous 19. And scary.
Posted on Feb 24, 2012
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![](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20120225134752im_/http:/=2fwww.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/prayrugislnew160.jpg) AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
An AP report detailing NYPD surveillance of a New Jersey Muslim community conflicts with Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s claims about how police operate.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012
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![](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20120225134752im_/http:/=2fwww.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/AP120222084754-160.jpg) AP / Ross D. Franklin
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By Robert Scheer — Here we go again. With the economy showing faint signs of life, the leading Republican candidates have returned to the elixir of warmongering to once again sway the gullible masses.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012
70 COMMENTS
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![](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20120225134752im_/http:/=2fwww.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/AP120123057636-160.jpg) AP / Nariman El-Mofty
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — As American NGO employees await trial, propagandists beat the drums of public suspicion and the military maneuvers to preserve U.S. aid.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — “The president is wrong.” So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012
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![](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20120225134752im_/http:/=2fwww.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/obama-as-alien-dionne-160.jpg) White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist who is waging war on religion.
Posted on Feb 23, 2012
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
There is nothing more feared by right-wing fundamentalists than people who can think critically and reflectively and are willing to invest in reason and freedom.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
Occupy had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012
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![](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20120225134752im_/http:/=2fwww.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/AP120124165198-160.jpg) AP / Paul Sancya
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By Juan Cole — Politics has become a game of the super rich, but the money they donate is significant only because of the way it is spent: on TV and radio advertising.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012
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