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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?

Mitchell Zimmerman

Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

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The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Civilians imperiled as 500 Israeli Strikes hit Gaza (Democracy Now!)

Palestinian Civilians imperiled as 500 Israeli Strikes hit Gaza (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! report: “”Nowhere to Run”: Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes in Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis From the transcript: “MOHAMMED OMER: You’re […]

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Environment
Top Ten True costs of BP Gulf Oil Spill

Top Ten True costs of BP Gulf Oil Spill

BP yesterday agreed to pay a fine of some $4.5 billion dollars from the US Department of Justice for malfeasance in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon […]

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Iran
Candidate for CIA Chief Jane Harman Advocated Ethnic Breakup of Iran

Candidate for CIA Chief Jane Harman Advocated Ethnic Breakup of Iran

CNN lists former California representative Jane Harman, now head of the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., as a potential successor to Gen. David Petraeus as […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Wagging the Dog in Gaza: Netanyahu’s Skirmish of Fear (Sternfeld)

Wagging the Dog in Gaza: Netanyahu’s Skirmish of Fear (Sternfeld)

Lior Sternfeld writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Israel has embarked, with its Gaza attack, on the all-too-well-known elections routine. Before the 2009 […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Noam Chomsky on Gaza (Democracy Now!)

Noam Chomsky on Gaza (Democracy Now!)

At Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, Noam Chomsky discusses his recent trip to the Gaza Strip: Here is DM’s blurb for the piece: World-renowned political dissident, […]

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CIA
The Arab Reading of the Petraeus/Allen Affair:  Jill Kelley is Gilberte Khawam, a Lebanese

The Arab Reading of the Petraeus/Allen Affair: Jill Kelley is Gilberte Khawam, a Lebanese

The headlines about the Petraeus affair in the Arab world this morning almost universally read something like “Lebanese woman brings down CIA.” The woman who […]

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Why did the Press Mythologize Gen. Petraeus in the first place?:  Michael Hastings @ Piers Morgan

Why did the Press Mythologize Gen. Petraeus in the first place?: Michael Hastings @ Piers Morgan

Journalist Michael Hastings asks some quick, sharp questions about press deference to power. Hastings is the author of The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan Commander Gen. John Allen Investigated; Meanwhile, Afghanistan sinking

Afghanistan Commander Gen. John Allen Investigated; Meanwhile, Afghanistan sinking

The emails to Jill Kelly of Gen. John Allen, US commander in Afghanistan and a friend of ex-CIA chief David Petraeus, are being investigated as […]

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Energy
The Tesla S and World Peace:  Can American Green Energy End the Gulf Oil Wars?

The Tesla S and World Peace: Can American Green Energy End the Gulf Oil Wars?

Petroleum makes the world go round, with 70% of it used to power automobiles. About a fifth of the world’s 90 million barrels a day […]

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