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Robert Reich: The Defining Issue: Not Government's Size, But Who It's For

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Robert Reich - Dec. 20 (Opinion) - "Big government" isn't the problem. The problem is big money is taking over government.

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Calling Wall Street A ‘Gambling Casino,’ Democratic Rep. DeFazio Proposes Financial Transactions Tax

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - Echoing the demands of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) is proposing to tax the trading of stocks, bonds, and derivatives. DeFazio, along with his Senate co-sponsor Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), has proposed the tax several times in the past. But this time around, the idea is getting a boost of momentum [...]

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In Historic Visit, Queen Elizabeth II Regrets Britain's "Sad and Regrettable" Legacy in Ireland

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Col. Desmond Travers - May. 20 (Interview) - Queen Elizabeth II has become the first British monarch in a century to visit Ireland. In an address to the Irish nation on Wednesday, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II expressed regret at the troubled history of England's relations with Ireland. We get reaction from retired Irish soldier and peace-keeper Col. Desmond Travers.

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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By John Pilger - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - "How did they get away with it?" I asked. "The press allowed the crazies to get away with it." "Who are the crazies?" "The people running the [Bush] administration have a set of beliefs a lot like those expressed in 'Mein Kampf,'" said McGovern. "These are the same people who were referred to, in the circles in which I moved at the top, as 'the crazies.'" I said: "Norman Mailer has written that he believes America has entered a pre-fascist state. What's your view of that?" "Well ... I hope he's right, because there are others saying we are already in a fascist mode."

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Libya: Governments Should Demand End to Unlawful Killings

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Human Rights Watch - Feb. 20 (Advocacy) - The African Union and African, Western, and Arab countries that have relations with Libya should urge the Libyan government to stop the unlawful killing of protesters.

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Dear Government of Sweden...

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Michael Moore - Dec. 17 (Opinion) - Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your Volvos, your meatballs, your hard-to-put-together furniture -- we can't get enough! There's just one thing that bothers me -- why has Amnesty International, in a special report, declared that Sweden refuses to deal with the very real tragedy of rape?

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Frank Luntz Rides Again

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - Dec. 10 - Word came Thursday that, last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon had directed his staff to avoid using the phrase “public option” to describe a proposal hotly debated during the health reform debate. That option, proposed by Yale political science professor Jacob Hacker and embraced by some—but not all—of the progressive advocates, would have injected a real element...

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Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

theaustralian.com.au - By Julian Assange - Dec. 07 (Editorial) - WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately? Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption.

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Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Naomi Wolf - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - Dear Interpol: As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are dating.

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To all our veterans past and present, "Thank You" (tribute video)

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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The election has made the US more foreign

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Goldfarb - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - Post-election, the rest of the world marvels at Americans' avoidance of their problems.

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Tony Benn on Tony Blair: "He Will Have to Live 'Til the Day He Dies with the Knowledge that He Is Guilty of a War Crime"

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Tony Benn, Amy Goodman - Sep. 21 (Interview) - Mr. Blair misled the House of Commons. He told them things which were not true, under instructions from President George W. Bush, and, as a result of that, persuaded the House of Commons to vote for the war. One calculation is that over a million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict. And what was achieved by it? Nothing.

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Legendary British Author John le Carré on Why He Won't Be Reading Tony Blair's Iraq War-Defending Memoir

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Sep. 20 (Interview) - David Cornwell, the legendary British novelist who writes under the name John le Carré, joins us in London. A former British spy, his books include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and The Constant Gardener. On the heels of the publication of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Iraq war-defending memoir A Journey, le Carré explains why he refused to interview Blair and why he won’t be reading his memoir.

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The Dow vs. the economy

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Robert Reich's Blog - By Robert Reich - Sep. 03 (Opinion) - What passes for business reporting in the United States is too often a series of breathless reports about the stock market. When the Dow rises precipitously, as it did today (Wednesday), the business press predicts an end to the Great Recession. When the stock market plummets, as it did last week, the Great Recession is said to be worsening.

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Liberals Gone Wild

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 01 (Editorial) - “Liberal,” in Europe, means almost the reverse of what it means in North America. In Europe, it refers to laissez-faire economic policy. And because most large parties of the European left and right are committed to maintaining large, bureaucratic welfare states, liberal parties across the continent tend to be fairly small.

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Labour Pains

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Affairs - By Mark Blyth, Jonathan Hopkin - May. 04 (Opinion) - This election will be far from ordinary. It is not only a referendum on Brown, who became party leader and prime minister in 2007, after waiting ten years for the more charismatic Tony Blair to resign; it is also a referendum on Labour's 13 years in power and, on an even more basic level, on the economic principles that have guided the party's rule. It is in such moments that, as Karl Marx once mused, "all that is solid melts into air."

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The Digital Economy Bill against the digital economy

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Mike Butcher - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - ... the UK Labour governement, together with the Conservative arty, forced through the controversial Digital Economy Bill. The Bill now gets a ‘third reading’ in the House of Lords, which means it is almost certain to become law. The government did a deal with the Conservative leadership, which got a number of provisions it didn’t like removed. In other words, it was, to use an old British phrase, a “stitch up.”

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George Monbiot: UK Inquiry "Toothless" and "Feeble" in Probing Origins of Iraq War

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By George Monbiot, Amy Goodman - Feb. 17 (Interview) - As the Iraq war continues, Britain is in the midst of an ongoing public inquiry into the UK's role in the US-led war in 2003 invasion. The public hearings began in late November and the committee is expected to report its findings by June of this year. We speak to author and columnist George Monbiot, who has begun a campaign encouraging citizen's arrests of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for crimes against peace in Iraq.

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Stephen Hawking Enters U.S. Health Care Debate

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Aug. 13 (Comment) - So Barack Obama is facing the fight of his life (another one) as he attempts to reform the US healthcare system. The "special interests" --...

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Fighting for an editor facing five years' jail for protecting her sources

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The London Evening Standard - By Roy Greenslade - Jun. 10 (Editorial) - Will they never learn? All such attempts down the years to force journalists to speak - with one depressing exception, which I'll deal with in a moment - have ended in failure. Reporters are not police officers. They place information in the public domain for the wider public benefit. They cannot do that job if they break confidentiality agreements.

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Spanish team the only spoiler to stop English domination of Champions League final.

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Mark Starr - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - And so it has come down to this. Barcelona is our last, best hope. If Barcelona cannot best Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final that begins Tuesday, European soccer will have become nothing more than a stomping ground for the English. Last year witnessed the first-ever all-English final — Chelsea vs. Manchester United — in the more than half century of this competition. And this year could be déjà vu all over again, or however they say that in the English pubs.

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Katharine Gun: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Marcia Mitchell - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - Standing strong at the time, the young intelligence officer challenged the decision to go to war based on its legality and risked years in prison for doing so. She has outraged many by saying, "I have no regrets. I would do it again." This was her mantra even as the government was preparing to try her for high crime. It is her mantra today. Testifying with Carne Ross and others, she told Members of Parliament - who, as noted, remember her well, that "Working on the inside, there are people whose views are similar to my own, but they dare not speak their mind." If there is a significant paradigm switch, if truth becomes the essence of hope and the recorder of history, others, in both the United States and Great Britain, may find the courage to speak up.

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Canadian Judge Upholds Government Decision to Bar British MP George Galloway on National Security Grounds

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By George Galloway, Amy Goodman - Apr. 01 (Opinion) - Canadian officials say they banned Galloway on national security grounds, saying he provided financial support to Hamas, the Palestinian political party which was elected in January 2006 and controls the Gaza Strip

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Britain's bizarre reaction to war crimes allegations: investigations needed

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - Notice what is missing from these accounts. There is nobody arguing that the dreary past should simply be forgotten in order to focus on the important and challenging future. There's no snide suggestion that demands to investigate serious allegations of criminality are driven by petty vengeance or partisan score-settling. Nobody suggests that it's perfectly permissible for government officials to commit serious crimes -- including war crimes -- as long as they had nice motives or were told that it was OK to do these things by their underlings, or that the financial crisis (which Britain has, too) precludes any investigations, or that whether to torture is a mere "policy dispute." Also missing is any claim that these crimes are State Secrets that must be kept concealed in order to protect British national security.

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Conservative Renewal: A View from the UK

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

theamericanscene.com - By Jim Manzi - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - Alex Massie has a characteristically interesting post on the idea that political doctrines inevitably become inflexible dogma, and that this has happened to Reagan Republicanism: Like Thatcherism in Britain, the Reagan revolution began as an internal insurgency that caught the party grandees by surprise. …

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