12 September 2011
Captives to the logic of violence
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Robert Koehler
A decade later. The abyss keeps deepening, the wars keep squandering our blood and treasure beyond all logic except the logic of violence.
What ended on Sept. 11, 2001, it sometimes seems, was human evolution.

Suddenly...
07 September 2011
The NFL will remember 9/11 in all the wrong ways
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Dave Zirin
Ten years ago, on the first Sunday after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the NFL did something truly heroic and generous: nothing. The league willingly ate millions of dollars and cancelled the games out of respect for the unfolding tragedy....
04 September 2011
I just found 29 million jobs
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David Swanson
No, not 29 million job offers. I'm no better at applying for jobs than you are, and my town offers nothing but dead-end McJobs or positions in the military industrial complex, just like yours. I mean I just spotted an easy way to create 29...
01 September 2011
Cheney's kettle logic
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David Swanson
Sigmund Freud once mentioned the defense offered by a man who was accused by his neighbor of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition. In the first place, he had returned the kettle undamaged; in the second place it already had...
31 August 2011
9/11 and the Orwellian redefinition of "Conspiracy Theory"
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Paul Craig Roberts
While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition.
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of...
31 August 2011
An upcoming Charlottesville conference highlights the importance of whistleblowers when addressing the corruption present in military contracting
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David Swanson
YOU MAY have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington this summer. Were you aware that in the midst of it the House of Representatives passed a military spending bill larger than ever before?

U.S. military spending...

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