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40 Year $ 1 Trillion U.S. War, the Worst Failure in World History

With our economy fighting itself out of a recession, states failing in budgets to educate our kids, and blame artists looking everywhere for a scapegoat, it's time we took a serious look at ourselves...

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Ode to a Murdered Marine

My limited contact with poetry was in college at Temple University in the 1970s. I managed to squeeze by an English poetry course with a gentlemen “C.”

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Veterans Today Joins with U.S. Groups to Encourage Spain Prosecute Bush...

Dozens of U.S. human rights groups will present an open letter to the Spanish public to consulates and Madrid officials on Valentine's Day. They will encourage support of Spanish courts in prosecuting...

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The Disastrous War on Drugs Turns 40: 5 Ways to Stop the Madness

Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs,"...

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Mike Harris: OBAMA’S SECRET GUN RUNNING TO THE MEXICAN CARTELS

Yet another Justification to Impeach Obama, the Usurper, and to Try and Convict Both, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder for Treason, Sedition, Breach of...

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Unprecedented level of violence in Mexico?

Legalization would help with American Jobs, help our balance of trade, reduce the prison population, create state, local and federal revenue. The downside is that the Bible Belt and hypocritical...

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Another Day Another Self Inflicted Calamity By US Empire Delivering Democracy

Self inflicted morose and despised crumbling US empire ratchets up domestic and global calamity in a race with the 24 hour clock to the dark abyss and bottom of collapse.

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The Wall Street and Drug Cartel Partnership

If Washington has been the driving force for the regime’s war, Wall Street banks have been the main instruments ensuring the profits of the drug cartels.

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From Nobel to Nobel: A letter to Barack Obama

‘How can you speak of human rights and the dignity of peoples when you perpetually violate them and block those who don’t share your ideology and must endure your abuses?’, asks 1980 Nobel Prize winner...

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Some US Vets Allowed to Use Cannabis Medicinally

In the current patchwork of Medical Marijuana laws and regulations across the country, clinical cannabis use is not decided by the military patients' need for medicine, but rather where they live.

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Republicans Want Dramatic Escalation of Drug War

Targeting families again - Under the Republican bill, if a young couple plans a wedding in Amsterdam, and as part of the wedding, they plan to buy the bridal party some marijuana, they would be subject...

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Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars

Isn’t it finally time to expand the too-big-to-fail category to include the Pentagon, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more generally the National Security Complex?

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Drug War Profiteers: How Wachovia Bank Laundered Millions for Mexican Cartels

As protests continue against Wall Street and the nation’s biggest banks, we speak to British journalist Ed Vulliamy, author of “Amexica: War Along the Borderline.” Vulliamy exposes how one bank,...

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He was 22 … She was 12 …

He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a city incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949. Lessons from the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World bent on war and destruction.

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Vladimir Putin: Russia and The Changing World

We are ready for mutually beneficial cooperation and open dialogue with all our foreign partners. We aim to understand and take into account the interests of our partners, and we ask that our own...

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Drones Overseas Lead to Drones at Home

Twenty states already have 64 functioning drone sites for police use, and more than 300 law enforcement agencies are now licensed to operate the vehicles.

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Intense Anti-Assad Propaganda

Western propaganda is relentless. Media scoundrels regurgitate official misinformation and bald-faced lies. Truth and full disclosure are verboten.

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Federal Clampdown Throws Citizens Underground as War on People Escalates

A pair of San Francisco prominent medical marijuana businesses closed their doors Tuesday, a sign of the federal government’s recent crackdown on medical cannabis dispensaries

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Saudi Arabia: The Neocons’ Once and Future Target

Shiites in the Gulf have already become enraged against the Saudis, so this element could serve as an invaluable propaganda instrument to intensify anti-Saudi feeling in the West in order to bring down...

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“Would Romney Pursue a Neocon War Agenda?” Revisited

On reading "The 50 most powerful Republicans on foreign policy," I found myself compelled to suggest that people re-read my article “Would Romney Pursue a Neocon War Agenda?”

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