01 December 2011
Project Bugsplat
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Robert Koehler
“The Lakotah had no language for insulting other orders of existence: pest, waste, weed . . .”

But what about “bugsplat”?

That’s the word for the cop at UC Davis, walking up and down the line of students sitting...
23 November 2011
Eliminate tax subsidies for big oil companies ?
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Tom Over
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22 November 2011
The last whistleblowers
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David Swanson
Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before -- although that is true; and not because important acts of whistleblowing now result in...
22 November 2011
Lesson of White House Strafing: Limit Guns Now
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Jesse Jackson
Protest has returned to Egypt’s Tahrir Square; the Bears won their fifth in a row; a man stands accused of strafing the White House; China warns of a long recession.

Wait a minute. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was arrested in...
21 November 2011
The bravest man I ever met
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by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Pageant magazine June 1965
Last December, 2000 Americans gathered at New York's Hotel Astor to celebrate the 80th birthday of Norman Thomas. I could not be present because I had to go to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. But before I enplaned for Norway, I taped...
20 November 2011
I'm thankful for Occupy
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David Swanson
I'm thankful that a growing number of us reject the idea of a mysterious being to which we should be thankful, and for the concomitant growing assumption of responsibility for our own fate.

I'm thankful that there are so many...

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