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08 March 2013
Gun “Background Check” on Pentagon
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Norman Solomon
Stringent “background checks” are central to many proposals for curbing gun violence. The following is a background check on the nation’s largest buyer of firearms:

The applicant, U.S. Pentagon, seeks to purchase a wide...
08 March 2013
Abu Ghraib Revisited
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Robert Koehler
Philip Zimbardo’s TED Talk on Abu Ghraib and “The Psychology of Evil” is up to 2,374,000 hits. Apparently people are hungry to know about the deep psychology of American foreign policy.

And perhaps they’re hungry to look,...
05 March 2013
Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi amigo
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Greg Palast
For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today.
 Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It’s the oil. And it’s the Koch Brothers –...
27 February 2013
Witnesses at a drone hearing
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David Swanson
This coming Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing on "Drones and the War On Terror: When Can the U.S. Target Alleged American Terrorists Overseas?"

This is odd for a number of reasons.

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26 February 2013
Voting rights act as needed as ever
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Jesse Jackson
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby v. Holder. On the same day, across the street in the congressional rotunda, a statue honoring Rosa Parks will be unveiled. And one week...
25 February 2013
Top U.S. terrorist group: The FBI
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David Swanson
A careful study of the FBI's own data on terrorism in the United States, reported in Trevor Aaronson's book The Terror Factory, finds one organization leading all others in creating terrorist plots in the United States: the FBI.
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