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Why Syria’s Revolution is not like Libya’s (Dughman)
Husam Dughman writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The Arab Spring springs surprises When a popular uprising started in Tunisia less than two […]
Conservative ‘Dark Money’ Outspending even Superpacs on Attack Ads (Barker)
Kim Barker writes at ProPublica Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the […]
Romney shills for dirty Big Coal as Obama touts Iowa Wind Power
Wind energy is on a roll in the United States, having doubled since 2008 to 50 gigawatts, enough to power 13 million homes. So why […]
Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Torture) is the New Normal in America (McCoy)
Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch Impunity at Home, Rendition AbroadHow Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life After a […]
Your Election is being Bought by 47 Billionaires (and they are Buying War, Climate Change)
The Public Interest Group Education Fund and the NGO Demos released a study in early August on the financing of the presidential campaign. They found […]
Uygur: Paul Ryan Created the Deficit
Cenk Uygur of Current TV takes on Paul Ryan’s claims to be a deficit hawk and for small government, showing all the ways that Ryan’s […]
Arabs and the Olympics (Majid)
Anouar Majid writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The 2012 Olympics in London gave us a golden opportunity to assess the condition of […]
Really, America? Really? These are your Top Stories?
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You might be Paul Ryan if….
If you admitted that you got into politics because of the impact on you of the philosopher of personal greed and egotism, Ayn Rand, but […]
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