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Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - “I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering” here at home.

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Lack of universal health care is a mass killer

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Dr. Deb Richter - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - In my 20 years of practice as a family physician, I have encountered dozens of cases where the main contributing factor to a person’s death was the lack of health insurance for most of their lives.

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Changing Obama's Mindset

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Howard Zinn - May. 15 (Opinion) - Our job is not to give him a blank check or simply be cheerleaders. It was good that we were cheerleaders while he was running for office, but it’s not good to be cheerleaders now. Because we want the country to go beyond where it has been in the past. We want to make a clean break from what it has been in the past.

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Being an Arab is no slur

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Moustafa Bayoumi - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - In his rebuke to his supporter, McCain counterposed being Arab with being a decent family man. That’s news to me, and to the legions of decent, Arab-American family men out there!

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Yellow Dogs For Obama

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Ruth Conniff - Jul. 10 (Opinion) - The DailyKos argument that Obama's supporters should embrace his abandonment of their principles because he will win by selling out avoids the most important question: What will Obama do after he wins? Why should we believe he will suddenly tack back to being a defender of civil liberties?

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Bush's Secret Army of Snoops and Snitches

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Jul. 09 (Special Report) - A new class of everyday spies, from paramedics to utility workers, are being recruited to be "terrorism liason officers."

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McCain's Meddlers

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Mukoma Wa Ngugi - Jun. 06 (Special Report) - McCain has served as board chairman since 1993. During the past fifteen years, under the cover of spreading democracy and a free market economic system, the IRI has helped install governments friendly to the United States and undermined others.

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The FBI Deputizes Business

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Feb. 07 (Special Report) - Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does--and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law.

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How to Pull Out of a Recession: the Ethical Way, Not the Bush Way

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - When facing a recession, we always need to ask: What kind of tax cuts? What kind of deficit spending? For whom, and for what?

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Put away the flags

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:30:37 -0700

The Progressive - By Howard Zinn - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?

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Kucinich Sings of the Centrality of Peace

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:23:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Jun. 22 (News Report) - "It is our job to heal this planet," he said, "and to bring this planet together as one people." The crowd was quiet at the beginning, perhaps expecting a more partisan and less ethereal opening. But he won them over with his commitment to peace. "I see peace as being the central issue and concern of our time," Kucinich said. "In a Kucinich Administration we would begin with an understanding of the centrality of peace. We would begin with policies that reject war as an instrument of policies."

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Are We Politicians or Citizens?

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:47:15 -0700

The Progressive - By Howard Zinn - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - Except for the rare few, like Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Lynn Woolsey, and John Lewis, our representatives are politicians, and will surrender their integrity, claiming to be "realistic." We are not politicians, but citizens. We have no office to hold on to, only our consciences, which insist on telling the truth. That, history suggests, is the most realistic thing a citizen can do.

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A Peculiar Version of Friendly Fire: Female Troops Face Double Danger

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:04:21 -0800

The Progressive - By Traci Hukill - Jan. 25 (Special Report) - The danger faced by female troops is not in dispute. Sexual harassment and sexual assault are common enough in the military that the Veterans Administration has a new acronym. "Unwanted, uninvited sexual experience during military service" is officially known as Military Sexual Trauma, or MST. It's a blanket term that spans a wide range of experience, from off-color jokes to rape.

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