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By Noam, Chomsky, TomDispatch —
After the first few years of the Great Depression there was a sense that “we’re gonna get out of it.” It’s quite different now. For many people in the United States, there’s a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.
Posted on May 8, 2012
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By Col. Ann Wright — The Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., is the showplace of the Marine Corps. It is also the home of officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps who have been accused of sexually harassing, assaulting and raping female Marine officers and enlisted and civilian women who work there.
Posted on May 8, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that’s what it was, given Sunday’s election results in Europe.
Posted on May 7, 2012
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Ernest Callenbach, author of the beloved 1975 utopian novel “Ecotopia,” died of cancer last month at the age of 83. Days later, a sort of farewell detailing his hopes for the world he left behind was discovered on his computer.
Posted on May 7, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested for the second time as part of the Occupy protests. His moral and intellectual courage stands in stark contrast with the timidity of nearly all clergy and congregants in all of our major religious institutions.
Posted on May 7, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The American Prospect, a center-left magazine (for which I have occasionally written) faces a financial crisis that could soon force it to shut its doors.
Posted on May 6, 2012
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By Michael Grabell, ProPublica —
It took the TSA almost four years to respond to ProPublica’s public records request for passenger complaints against the agency.
Posted on May 5, 2012
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — The rough mobilization and confrontation that have occurred at every juncture in Egypt’s post-revolutionary evolution is happening again as the first true presidential election in the nation’s long history approaches.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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There were doubts about whether Occupy Wall Street could pull off the massive day of protest its organizers spent many months planning. But demonstrators in New York City and elsewhere joined forces with labor unions and immigrant-rights activists to remind the public that there is a working class and May 1 is its holiday.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Rep. Dennis Kucinich — Forty-two years ago on May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd of unarmed students at Kent State University, firing between 61 and 67 shots over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and injuring nine others.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — For the second straight year, Granada Hills Charter High School in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles has won the National Academic Decathlon.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Show of hands: Does anybody really understand the U.S. policy in Afghanistan? Can anyone figure out how we’re supposed to stay the course and bring home the troops at the same time?
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By David Sirota — In the Information Age, you should be thinking about your computer—and asking, how much of you is really yours?
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
A study into the safety of gas drilling in New York state’s Marcellus Shale concludes that natural faults and fractures, exacerbated by the effects of fracking, could allow chemicals to reach the surface and contaminate drinking water supplies much sooner than experts previously predicted.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
After a year with a record number of multibillion-dollar weather disasters, seven in 10 Americans now believe that global warming is affecting the weather. No less striking, 35 percent of them report that extreme weather had affected them personally in 2011.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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