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Guernica Norman Solomon, Flares in the Political Dark

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The winter solstice of 2009 arrived as a grim metaphor for the current politics of healthcare, war and a lot more. “In a dark time,” wrote the poet Theodore Roethke, “the eye begins to see.”
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Guernica World leaders gathering in Copenhagen arrive with their fingers on the pulse of their domestic political scenes--so what happens is literally up to you.

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--Under the vaulting sloped-glass roof of Copenhagen’s Bella Center, the excitement is palpable. I’m here for the two-week long “COP 15,” or the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change. ...
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Most political arguments don’t really have a right and a wrong, no matter how passionately they’re argued. They’re about human preferences -- for more health care or lower taxes, for ...
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Guernica How hard is it to recognize which side of the coup we should be on?

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Notes on the day by the staff of The New Yorker.
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Guernica In light of Stupak, Ehrenreich argues for a new women's health movement in Guernica today.

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Has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult? When the House of Representatives passed the Stupak amendment, which would take abortion rights away even from women who have private insurance, the female response ranged from muted to inaudible.
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Guernica Does Wall Street know any shame? Nope, says Robert Reich

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One out of four homeowners is now under water, owing more on their homes than the homes are worth. Why? The biggest single factor behind the housing crisis is rising unemployment. According to the latest ...
Matthew
Matthew
Sociopaths, all of them!
November 30, 2009 at 12:24am
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Guernica Solnit: People power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989

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Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off ...
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Guernica Spanish court opens "Jesuit massacre" case.

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Spain's National Court opened an official investigation into 14 former military officers in El Salvador accused of killing six priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989.
Billie
Billie
Murder will out!
November 20, 2009 at 1:17pm
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.
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First there was Medicare for all 300 million of us. But that was a non-starter because private insurers and Big Pharma wouldn't hear of it, and Republicans and "centrists" thought it was too much like ...
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Guernica Is Bill O'Reilly the devil?

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When former CNNhost Lou Dobbs stopped by Bill O'Reilly's show Monday night, the two had a lot of weighty questions to discuss:What's next for Dobbs? Is he going back to television, or perhaps into politics? Between the two of us, who's more pompous and self-righteous?
Marjorie Gillis
Marjorie Gillis
probably a minion of, for sure
November 17, 2009 at 2:07pm
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Guernica The biggest state party has spoken: get out of Afghanistan, Mr. President

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There's a significant new straw in the political wind for President Obama to consider. The California Democratic Party has just sent him a formal and clear message: Stop making war in Afghanistan.
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Guernica The Right-wing surrender to terrorism.

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Terrorism is a psychological weapon and is directed to create a general climate of fear. As one definition cogently notes, "terror is a natural phenomenon, terrorism is the conscious exploitation of it." Terrorism utilizes violence to coerce governments and their people by inducing fear.
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Guernica Is Noam Chomsky getting optimistic? No, not really. But he does have "hope."

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The controversial critic of U.S. foreign policy discusses his forthcoming book, where he feels hopeful about democracy, and his friendship—okay, passing acquaintance—with Hugo Chavez and other “pink tide” presidents.
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