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Seeded on Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:05 PM EDT (The Seattle Times)

If you think you now have little voice and power in government decision-making, things would get worse if corporations win this Supreme Court decision.

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Remembering the Real Deal

Seeded on Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:11 AM EDT (Truthdig)

Scheer: "No one in the history of [the U.S.

Whistleblower tells of America's hidden nightmare for its sick poor

Seeded on Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:17 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

While visiting relatives in Tennessee, insurance company exec realized that health care in America had failed millions of poor, sick people and that he, and the industry he worked for, did not care about the human cost of their relentless search for profits.

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A force of nature: our influential Anthropocene period

Seeded on Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:30 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

As Lewis concludes: "The future direction of the only place in the universe where we know life exists is in our hands. Suddenly, after almost 500 years, humanity is centre stage again. Let's not blow it."

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t r u t h o u t | Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

Seeded on Fri Jul 3, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Bush's first treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, described a White House interest in invading Iraq and controlling its vast oil reserves, dating back to the first days of the Bush presidency.

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Consortiumnews.com

Seeded on Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:09 PM EDT (Consortiumnews.com)

With the continuing pratfalls of their supposedly top-tier candidates, the Republicans have only one genuine hope for the future of their party: President Obama must fail and the Democrats must take the blame.

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t r u t h o u t | Made of Lies

Seeded on Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:55 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

More than 4,320 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq because of lies told by the Bush/Cheney administration. Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers have been shredded and maimed because of those lies.

The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

Seeded on Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:07 AM EDT (Truthdig)

The modern world, as Kafka predicted, has become a world where the irrational has become rational, where lies become true.

t r u t h o u t | Kicking the Nuclear Habit

Seeded on Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:57 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

The obstacle to nuclear abolition is the long-term habit of threatening to use the most powerful weapons available to resolve conflicts among hostile nations.

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The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Seeded on Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:04 AM EDT (Truthdig)

If Congress fails to enact health-care reform, the punishment inflicted by angry voters is likely to be reduced majorities for Democrats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives—or even the restoration of Republican rule on Capitol Hill.

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Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Seeded on Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:58 PM EDT (Truthdig)

The greatest favor we can do for democracy activists in Iran--as well as in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf and the dictatorships that dot North Africa--is withdraw our troops from the region and begin to speak to Iranians and the rest of the Muslim world in the civilized language of …

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Firing Back on Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Seeded on Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:35 AM EDT ()

The sooner we shoot down these myths, the sooner we'll be able dispel fear, think clearly, and start having some real, honest conversations about the actual threats we face.

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The AMA's Unhealthy Obsession

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:12 PM EDT (Truthdig)

U.S. doctors find themselves at the mercy of corporate insurance bureaucrats. In fact, most doctors no longer belong to the once-venerable organization that purports to speak for them.

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Report on Warming Offers New Details

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:04 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

Man-made climate change could bring parching droughts to the Southwest and pounding rainstorms to Washington, put Vermont maple sugar farms out of business and Key West underwater over the next century, according to a federal report released yesterday.

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'Only Rich Countries' Can End Climate Deadlock | OneWorld.net (U.S.)

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:33 AM EDT ()

To prevent climate disaster by reducing annual global emissions to 1990 levels or below, wealthier nations--responsible for 75 percent of greenhouse gases now in the atmosphere--need to reduce their emissions by at least 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

t r u t h o u t | The Healthcare War is Now Official

Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:37 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

A public option large enough to have bargaining leverage to drive down drug prices and private-insurance premiums is the defining issue of universal health care. It's the only way to make health care affordable.

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t r u t h o u t | Why Have We Stopped Talking About Guns?

Seeded on Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:32 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Rather than propose concrete action that makes it harder for dangerous people to get firearms--while still respecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners--all Washington can seem to muster after high-profile shootings are "thoughts and prayer" for the victims an …

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t r u t h o u t | Sotomayor Derangement Syndrome

Seeded on Mon Jun 1, 2009 8:52 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Consider the insulting comments of one conservative commentating moron, G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame: "Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would really be bad.

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t r u t h o u t | Afghanistan's Untold Story

Seeded on Sun May 31, 2009 9:56 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

President Obama is being led into the graveyard of empires by the same misguided philosophers of war that helped spawn this disaster in the first place. It's time for new, empowered, alternative voices to rise up from an informed American public and enter the fray.

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What One Stimulus Buck Could Do

Seeded on Sun May 31, 2009 12:21 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Santa Fe-based architect Edward Mazria has done the math, and his "14x" plan, which he calculates will generate $14 in private spending for every stimulus buck spent, is creating major buzz in city halls and statehouses across the country.

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t r u t h o u t | Everyone Should See "Torturing Democracy"

Seeded on Sat May 30, 2009 11:03 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Smothering the reality of torture in euphemism by calling it "enhanced interrogation" has a political value, enabling its defenders to diminish the horror and possible illegality.

Feudalism With A Smiling Face

Seeded on Mon May 18, 2009 11:12 PM EDT (ourfuture.org)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936: "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.

t r u t h o u t | Why the Caged Bird Sang

Seeded on Fri May 15, 2009 11:17 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Like a caged bird, Dick Cheney sang because he was terrified of the very real cage that could be waiting to swing open and swallow him up if the true nature of his torture directives became widely known. He very well could be the most evil politician in U.S. history.

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t r u t h o u t | When PTSD Comes Marching Home

Seeded on Wed May 13, 2009 10:23 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

The soldier who shot five fellow troops in Iraq did so in a base clinic catering to service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He had served three tours in Iraq.

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Barack Obama's key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign

Seeded on Wed May 13, 2009 10:12 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

America's oil, gas and coal industry has increased its lobbying budget by 50 percent, with key players spending $44.5 million in the first three months of this year in an intense effort to cut off support for President Obama's plan to build a clean energy economy.

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