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08 November 2012
Re-examining Lucasville: Essay 6
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Staughton Lynd
Let’s try to visualize the most unfair criminal trial we can imagine. Let’s make a list of elements that might be part of such an unjust proceeding. The list might include the following elements.
1. The judge excuses one...
02 November 2012
The economic consequences of Mr. Obama
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Fadhel Kaboub
When British economist and public intellectual John Maynard Keynes wrote his famous essay entitled “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill” in 1925, the British economy was still suffering the consequences of WWI, and was slowly...
02 November 2012
The indefinite detention of the progressive voter
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Sam Husseini
Earlier this year President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law. It allows for the indefinite detention without trial for any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism.

Some...
31 October 2012
Why we fight to prevent stolen elections in 2012 and beyond
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Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman
With election day less than a week away, the spectre of another stolen election is upon us. The airwaves and internet are at last filling with discussion of this possibility.

When the first stories were broken by a handful of...
28 October 2012
Letter to a friend who urges me not to vote for either major presidential candidate
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Bob Sheak
From what I can make of the presidential election campaign, there are differences and also disturbing similarities in the respective policies of Obama and Romney. In the end, I choose Obama over Romney as, in Phyllis Bennis' words, the "...
27 October 2012
2004 and 2012: Reflection and premonition: Then and now
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Doug Todd
As Election Day 2012 approaches, I find myself haunted by memories of Election Day 2004, November 2. At that time I was volunteering with George Soros’ organization, America Coming Together. I was working with a lot of people from...

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