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document.writeln("An Alabama Senator with long-standing ties to the US military-industrial complex and an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama is backing down from a direct confrontation with the White House today after taking the unprecedented step of announcing last week that he would filibuster all the president &#8217;s appointments to secure earmarks for his home state.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("On Vietnam, Afghanistan and Bloody Irreversibility");

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document.writeln("Reading old articles about the Vietnam War is sobering precisely because they read like articles written yesterday. Consider just one example. On May 30, 1967, Look magazine published a comprehensive, 25-page review entitled  USA in Asia.  The subtitle gave the game away:  Our bloody commitments in Asia horrify many Americans. But like it or not, we are irreversibly involved.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("Haiti experts are warning that unless the international community comes up with new, more imaginative and more inclusive approaches to reconstruction and development in the earthquake-ravaged nation, the Western Hemisphere &#8217;s poorest country can look forward to more of the same.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("The Obama administration is demanding that California&rsquo;s largest for-profit health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, justify a planned 39 percent rate increase for some of its 800,000 customers even though the firm&rsquo;s parent company saw its profits soar last year.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("Rep. John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania), a fierce critic of the Iraq war, died Monday at age 77 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington,&nbsp;Virginia. Murtha was the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress.Murtha, who had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery, had a distinguished 37-year career in the US Marine Corps.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("Is Pot Legalization Push in California a Trend That Will Spread?");

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document.writeln("San Francisco - It &#8217;s almost a clich&eacute; these days that this city and its sister to the east, Oakland, stand as the primary incubators of some of California &#8217;s infamously wacky but later transformational social and political ideas.From the Silicon Valley to Oakland and Berkeley to the Napa Valley &ndash; if it was at first weird, untested, illegal and/or controversial, it probably got its start right here.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("Shunning Howard Zinn's History");

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document.writeln("In this guest essay from www.killinghope.org, historian William Blum addresses this media asymmetry and the late Howard Zinn &#8217;s heroic effort to address the imbalance:Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("In an interview during the Super Bowl pre-game show yesterday, President Obama announced his plan for a bipartisan health care summit that would be broadcast on TV later this month.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("The Tea Party Versus Obama");

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document.writeln("Nashville -  English only.  Under this pretext, this reporter gets nothing but monosyllables and a pronounced lack of interest on the part of my intended interview subjects once they detect a foreign accent in my English. It &#8217;s not yet eight in the morning, but those attending the first National Tea Party Convention here in Nashville are already exercising a sociopolitical muscle that Tom Tancredo - the populist, firebrand American political figure - flexed the night before.<p>read more");

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document.writeln("Here There Be Monsters");

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document.writeln("They say everything can be replaced,Yet every distance is not near.So I remember every faceOf every man who put me here.- Bob Dylan,  I Shall Be Released <p>read more");

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