By Thor Benson —
President Obama has called his administration the “most transparent in history,” but instead of allowing companies to be completely transparent regarding their involvement in government surveillance, Washington has muzzled them.
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By Chris Hedges —
Two leading political philosophers, Sheldon Wolin and John Ralston Saul, explore the corporations' slow-motion coup d’état and the prospects of financial collapse and revolt. (Above, a moment in a Sept. 22 protest at the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street in New York City.)
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Kjell Gunnar Beraas, MSF
Doctors Without Borders was on the scene in West Africa six months before the U.N. declared the outbreak a "threat to international peace and security."
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Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges channeled his solemn, sermonic style at Stony Point, N.Y., on Saturday at a dinner inaugurating the Anne Barstow and Tom Driver Award for Excellence in Nonviolent Direct Action in Retirement.
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss President Obama’s appointment of an Ebola czar, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s concern over economic inequality in the U.S., Silicon Valley’s egg-freezing employee benefits and the outlook for both parties in the upcoming election.
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By Amy Goodman — “Don’t make history a mystery” read one of the signs at a rally in Jefferson County, Colo.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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Four former employees of the private security form formerly known as Blackwater were convicted Wednesday of a mass shooting during the Iraq war.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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A shooter killed a Canadian soldier and stormed the parliament building in Ottawa on Wednesday, where he was himself killed by the sergeant-at-arms.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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Actor, comedian and budding political commentator Russell Brand may have been surprised to hear that onetime Sex Pistol John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, is no fan of anarchism—or of Brand, for that matter.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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The NSA whistle-blower has demonstrated to journalists the need for security measures when it comes to sources; a Paris opera cast refused to perform with a veiled woman in the audience; meanwhile, some Las Vegas chapels and Elvis impersonators ban same-sex weddings at their venues. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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After 13 years in Afghanistan, a belligerent period considered to be “America’s longest war,” combat troops are coming home. But they’re not the only ones packing up in the country.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —
With this year’s elections just two weeks away, ProPublica has rounded up some of the best investigative reporting on campaign finance.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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By Juan Cole — Al-Zaman reports that Iranian President Hasan Rowhani has proposed to visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi an anti-IS axis including Syria, Lebanon and Iraq that would be led by Iran, as an alternative to the U.S.-led coalition proposed by President Barack Obama.
Posted on Oct 22, 2014
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Over the past two months, the Brazilian Amazon has registered a sharp spike in deforestation.
Posted on Oct 21, 2014
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On the most recent episode of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” the comedian released what MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called Monday “an asset in our nation’s arsenal in how to cover civics.” And by “asset” she means clips of every Supreme Court justice in the Roberts court as a dog. Yes, a dog.
Posted on Oct 21, 2014
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An Al-Jazeera contributor argues Americans’ fear of IS is fueled by Islamaphobia while more imminent dangers nearby are ignored; celibate gays are helping change the Catholic Church; meanwhile, Germany’s apprenticeship model could be good for U.S. workers. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Oct 21, 2014
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By Juan Cole — Morocco, Mexico and India, among others, have some good news to spread regarding solar energy.
Posted on Oct 21, 2014
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By Robert Reich — The real crisis is the hysteria over Ebola that’s being fed by media outlets seeking sensationalism and politicians posturing for the midterm elections.
Posted on Oct 21, 2014
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By Juan Cole — In a step that over-ruled America’s Turkish NATO ally, U.S. jets dropped food, first aid and weaponry into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane on Monday morning.
Posted on Oct 21, 2014
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By Eugene Robinson — Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she isn’t running for president. At this rate, however, she may have to.
Posted on Oct 20, 2014
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A knife attack put Darek Fidyka on his back for two years, but an amazing medical procedure appears to have partially mended his spinal cord.
Posted on Oct 20, 2014
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Democrats in Kentucky and Georgia are pushing hard to win back the white working-class vote from Republicans.
Posted on Oct 20, 2014
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Historic Obama critic Paul Krugman made an about-face in his opinion of the president’s performance in a much-discussed Rolling Stone essay on Oct. 8 that Salon columnist Thomas Frank, who believes Krugman’s “relentless, one-man war on austerity… should have earned him a second Nobel Prize,” finds incredible.
Posted on Oct 20, 2014
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In a moving (but of course, still funny) episode of “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver sheds light on the plight of Iraqi and Afghani translators who worked for U.S. forces and contractors, a position that jeopardized the well-being of their families as well as themselves.
Posted on Oct 20, 2014
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Having seen her remarkable new film on Edward Snowden, “Citizenfour,” in a packed house at the New York Film Festival, I sat down with Laura Poitras in a tiny conference room at the Loews Regency Hotel in New York City to discuss just how our world has changed and her part in it.
Posted on Oct 20, 2014
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