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Aug 20, 2008

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George Orwell Bush strikes yet again. And the “liberal” media and inauthentic opposition of the Democratic Party offer no relevant corrections, as has so often been the case over the last eight...

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Fifty-five years ago this week, in mid-August of 1953, Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq, the prime minister of Iran, was toppled in a royalist coup code-named Operation AJAX by its US and British backers. The...

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Karl Marx once wrote, "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as...

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the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis.

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Aug 19, 2008

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Commentary Abu-Jamal: Black Political Power Expand

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As we are on the eve of what may be the most powerful Black achievement in U.S. history, it would be well to examine the history of Black political leadership in this country.
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Aug 18, 2008

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Aug 17, 2008

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The Olympics and I have what you could call a conflicted relationship. There’s the beauty of the games, the enjoyment of sports that don’t normally make it onto the sports landscape. Then...

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As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors in Iraq and neighbouring countries will cost U.S. taxpayers more than 100 billion dollars by the end of 2008, an under-the-radar...

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It's a given that anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is not going to win her race for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's seat in November's congressional elections. But hopefully, attention will be paid to...

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As Philip Giraldi points out in his article "America’s Israeli-Occupied Media ,"1 the Israeli government is continuing its campaign to get the U.S. military to attack Iran or at least give a...

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