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Drowning Democracy in Campaign Ads

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Ruth Conniff - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - The volume of advertising in this year's midterm elections is so great, you can't turn on the television or radio, go to the mailbox, answer the phone, or even watch old Sesame Street episodes on YouTube without being bombarded by political attack ads.

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Put Away the Flags

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Howard Zinn - Jul. 02 (Comment) - 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?read more

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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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Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in America

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

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Apr. 12 (News Report) - Chomsky warns of the "dark clouds of Fascism gathering " today in America.

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Feingolds Town Hall

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Progressive - By Elizabeth DiNovella - Feb. 24 (News) - Senator Russel Feingold conducts town hall meetings in every country of his home state of Wisconsin. In an interview with the Progressive Magazine, Feingold condemns the recent Supreme Court ruling on corporate spending.

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Horrific Supreme Court Ruling on Campaign Finance.

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:21:23 -0800

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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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Karzai's Report Card

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Amitabh Pal - Aug. 17 (Opinion) - “There are no human rights and democracy in Afghanistan,” she said. “Our legislative, executive and judicial bodies are infected with the voices of fundamentalism. The U.S. and its allies are busy in the warlordization, criminalization, drug lordization of our wounded land, and billions of dollars spent in the country only make the warlords and human rights abusers more powerful than before.”

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Obama in Physical Danger from Crazy Rightwingers

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Aug. 17 (Opinion) - Obama is facing more than 30 death threats a day, the paper said. And the Secret Service doesn’t have the resources to handle them all. “We have half the agents we need,” one Secret Service member told Kessler.

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Obama Surrenders on Health Care

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Aug. 17 (News Analysis) - If they were going to call him a socialist anyway, he should have pushed for single-payer. Instead, he proposed an inferior public option. And even on that, he refused to hold his ground and insist that he would veto any health reform bill that didn’t offer such an option. As a result, tens of millions of people may be forced to buy private health insurance, or they’ll be fined for not doing so. No wonder the insurance industry is rubbing its hands together.

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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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Bailout Blues: Why Bank Nationalization Makes Sense

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Ruth Conniff - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - The government should take over all of the failing financial institutions, clean them up, and turn them back over to private management after letting the shareholders eat their losses, he suggested. The Obama/Geithner alternative: feeding the shareholders with taxpayer money, is an outrageous waste.

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Obama and Daschle should opt for single-payer

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Progressive - By Rose Ann DeMoro - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - Daschle says he wants to hear from us, the American people, on this issue. So we should oblige him. Obama and Daschle have a choice: Rely on a private insurance-based plan that does little to mitigate the escalating health care crisis, or solve the problem once and for all and adopt universal, single-payer health care.

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Obama should prosecute Bush officials who designed torture policy

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Progressive - By Michael Ratner - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - One of Barack Obama’s first acts as president should be to instruct his attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former Bush Administration officials who gave the green light to torture.

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No More Shop till You Drop

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Progressive - By Ruth Conniff - Nov. 27 (Opinion) - The economic crisis calls for massive, bold action, not pouring money into firms that now have the temerity to pay out the taxpayer-financed bailout money as dividends, which is what they are doing. Tim Geithner and Larry Summers, who helped create the lax regulatory environment that led to this crisis, as well as the bailouts that followed, can't be counted on.

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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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U.S. Recklessness Toward Russia Set Stage for Current Conflict

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Progressive - By Matthew Rothschild - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - What we're witnessing now is the bankruptcy of almost two decades of U.S. policy toward Russia. When Gorbachev and Yeltsin agreed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Washington had a great opportunity to broker a global peace with only country, Russia, still capable of destroying the United States.

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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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Election Madness

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Progressive - By Howard Zinn - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - Would I support one candidate against another? Yes, for two minutes--the amount of time it takes to pull the lever down in the voting booth. But before and after those two minutes, our time, our energy, should be spent in educating, agitating, organizing our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the neighborhood, in the schools. Our objective should be to build, painstakingly, patiently but energetically, a movement that, when it reaches a certain critical mass, would shake whoever is in the White House, in Congress, into changing national policy on matters of war and social justice.

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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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