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Sanders Files "Saving American Democracy Amendment'

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Dec. 11 (News) - The first constitutional amendment ever proposed by Sanders during his two decades in Congress would reverse the narrow 5-to-4 ruling in Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commission. In that controversial decision almost two years ago, justices gave corporations the same First Amendment free-speech rights as people.

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Nullifying the Future -- Tyranny of the Minority

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Robert S. Becker - Aug. 09 (Opinion) - The Tea Party, like the Civil War, dramatize and test our core value -- does the majority rule when a strident obstructionist minority gets in its way? I say No when 20% trumps 80%.

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The Primary Obama Movement Begins Today

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Ian Welsh - Nov. 05 (News Analysis) - The 2010 electoral massacre is over and Democrats are licking their wounds. Let me put it simply, what went wrong went wrong from the very top of the party. In both political and policy terms, the President of the United States, the head of the Democratic party, created this disaster.

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Media Malpractice: Karl Rove's Nov. 1 Fraud Subpoena Not News?

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Gustav Wynn - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Last Sunday October 24th, Karl Rove was served with a subpoena alleging he is "the principal perpetrator in an Ohio racketeering conspiracy". The subpoena was approved by outgoing Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, and described illicit coordination with the head of the US Chamber of Commerce Tom Donahue in funnelling an "influx of billionaire/global corporate money where the actual source of the funding and speech is concealed."

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Atrocity and War

Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Camillo "Mac" Bica - May. 02 (Opinion) - "Having been indoctrinated by the propaganda of those whose militarism and warist agenda requires acceptance of the mythology of the 'good war' and the 'noble warrior,' the uninitiated and unaffected ... fail to realize the truth: that all war is barbarism in which cruelty and brutality -- atrocity -- is the norm rather than the exception."

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At OpEdNews: Rx for Healthcare Reform-- Manage Your Own Healthcare

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Alan Scharf - Sep. 26 (Opinion) - We can creatively use the free market system and our tax code to revolutionize healthcare to enable each of us to manage our OWN healthcare without medical transaction direction from government, insurance companies or employers. We will drastically reduce costs in doing so.

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The Great Tax Con Job

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Thom Hartmann - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - A very small niche of America's uber-wealthy have pulled off what may well be the biggest con job in the history of our republic, and they did it in a startlingly brief 30 or so years. True, they spent over three billion dollars to make it happen, but the reward to them was in the hundreds of billions - and will continue to be.

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God Cares

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Richard Volaar - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - I will personally guarantee that once we've disabused ourselves of these racist elitists, these old-monied banking families and their minions, we will have no problem building a world of peace and ridding it of injustice. It will become remarkably easy and simple because no system of artificial valuation is required to be your brother's keeper.

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Another moose caught in the headlights: New ethics complaint against Sarah Palin.

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Lani Massey Brown - Nov. 21 (Editorial) - Kick that pitbull while she’s down. Will another Republican Darling bite the dust… sand… SNOW? A new ethics complaint filed against Sarah Palin evokes comparisons of Palin with another Republican Darling, former Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Dark hair, lipstick, ambition, ethics... failing upwards. Both were used badly. They have much in common after all.

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Are the Banks Scamming Us?

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Keith Pope - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - A scheme is a project. 'To scheme against' is to calculate or conspire to defraud. In American NY Queens' argot it is called 'a Scam', and therefore their verb is 'to scam'. - So, are we being scammed? Can ducks swim?

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Man Killed by His Own Bomb in Burma

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Ashin Mettacara - Oct. 20 (Comment) - Reportedly the bomb was home-made and the man was killed by his own bomb.

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Steps you take - Or ought to.

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Flak Stopper - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - Watching the vermin secrete ever more of their totally fictional gains, we ought to be inspired to reach for something so much better, which is also so easily achievable.

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Fluoride in Tap Water is Hazardous to Health, research shows

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Sally Stride - Oct. 03 (Editorial) - Politics not science drives the support of fluoridation by government and dental groups

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Beware Smoke and Mirrors

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Joan Brunwasser - Sep. 27 (Comment) - ... there are systematic efforts being launched or continued in Democratic districts around the county to suppress, intimidate, or disable the voting process.

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The Americans

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Mark Overt Skilbred - Sep. 25 (Opinion) - The best guarantee for our reluctant partners that diplomacy with us will yield results, is the success of our neighboring partnerships. We will experience other global economic challenges in the future which require strategic partnerships similar to that of the European Union. Let's not be caught unprepared for the next crisis, but instead prepare our hemisphere for the requirements needed to prosper in the new millennium. Our inevitable struggles equip us for the eventual challenges we face in the global community.

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The US Belicose Foreign Policy

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:15:36 -0700

Op Ed News - By John Little - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Almost from the very beginning, the United States held a foreign policy of constant expansion. The original thirteen colonies saw the vast expanse of their uncharted continent as an adolescent today would view a new video action game. The fact that there were other inhabitants predating their arrival was of little consequence. The near complete genocide of the American native proved to be but a precursor of things to come. Historian David Stannard is of the opinion that the indigenous peoples of America were the victims of a "Euro-American genocidal war." While conceding that the majority of the indigenous peoples fell victim to the ravages of European disease, he estimates that almost 100 million died in what he calls the American Holocaust. One can dispute the population numbers from before and after, but one cannot argue with the fact that the US set out deliberately and from the very beginning, even while a colony under British rule, to conquer land and subjugate those living there prior to their arrival. It is important to note that the fact that American natives had not been exposed to common European diseases prior to their arrival, was a factor used quite often by military and civilian groups to purposefully weaken and deteriorate the strength and will of the American native. Blankets laden with small pox and other diseases were often offered to native Americans as "gifts" with the benefactors knowing full well that this constituted the death knell for the recipient natives. Often the native Americans would be forced into hard labor for little or no pay and then discarded when they no longer served a useful purpose.

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Ron Paul Press Conference Unifies Third Party and Independent Candidates

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - Ron Paul held what he described as a "very important" press conference on September 10th in Washington, DC. The event brought four third party and independent candidates "together in unity" around a statement of principles. The event came as polls showed the presidential race tightening and third party/independent candidates getting combined votes of over 10% in swing states.The four candidates - Independent Ralph Nader, the Green nominee Cynthia McKinney, the Constitution Party's Chuck Baldwin and the Libertarian Party's Bob Barr along with Ron Paul agreed on the following four key principles:

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At OpEdNews: Howard Zinn's Advice to Obama

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Rob Kall, Howard Zinn - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - Get the troops out of the Middle East.

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Michelle Obama's Empty Seats

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By JC Garrett - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - One thing that we Americans have to do is quit saying that we are in Iraq to defend America. It has nothing to do with patriotism, and it is not unpatriotic to state the obvious truth. A true patriot loves his country enough to say when his country is wrong.

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See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part I

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 18 (News Analysis) - They knew in the 1930's that we could make biodiesel out of hemp. It was the Lumber Companies who opposed it. For we can make paper out of it, along with plastics and cloths. Isn't that evident how it could benefit this Beautiful Planet?

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At OpEdNews: The Myth of American Moral Authority

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By D.C. Rapier - Aug. 17 (Opinion) - We as a People are blinded by our not having spoken up long ago.

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Working Poor Unready to Revolt

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Joel S. Hirschhorn - Aug. 07 (News Analysis) - The ruling class has successfully used propaganda to dumb down and manipulate most of the public because delusion has become the opiate of the masses.

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Beginning of a New Age

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Michael C. Dewey - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - Just like 200 years ago here, and 2000 years ago in Israel. The same old story.

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The Silent Coup - How a nation ruled by law, becomes a nation ruled by men

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By lisa persson - Feb. 29 (News Analysis) - increasing the power of the presidency means much more than just a certain interpretation of the constitution or that the legislative branch loses power. ultimately it means that the american people lose power.

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The Silent Coup - How a nation ruled by law, becomes a nation ruled by men

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By lisa persson - Feb. 29 (Opinion) - increasing the power of the presidency means much more than just a certain interpretation of the constitution or that the legislative branch loses power. ultimately it means that the american people lose power.

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