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The Newseum, which honored 82 journalists on May 13, 2013, stated that it had “decided to re-evaluate their inclusion as journalists on our memorial wall pending further investigation,” even though just last week, in response to the hysterical reaction to Salama’s and al-Kumi’s initial inclusion, the museum had affirmed and defended their decision
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It is up to the people to stand up for principle and morality when their institutions and public officials refuse to do so. The fates of those who are maimed or killed by our government's policies are inextricably intertwined with our own; we must listen and respond to their cry for justice.
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And so here we are, living in an environment Huxley or Orwell could forecast, but could never foretaste. It is the one-party state creating a smoke screen, diverting attention from the real issues of domestic policy. Divide and conquer, always keep’em guessing, always leave’em laughing. It requires the suspension of belief and the acceptance...
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A professor of medicine is paid $2,000 to hawk an expensive drug at dinner and has an unwritten, but well known, quid pro quo arrangement with that pharmaceutical company to prescribe their drug as part of this well understood agreement. Some of these paid speakers will prescribe a drug that will ultimately cost the...
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Globalization’s most troublesome dimension is that it is first and foremost based upon a philosophy that distorts the very meaning of truth. Globalization and neoliberalism represent a fundamental attack on humanity’s historic pursuit of truth. As a Bush senior aide put it to Ron Suskind in 2002, explaining that the people in the White...
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It is as if someone has died, that realization which comes to you from out of the blue and says, “Oh wow, they really did that!” Armed men in military style fatigues took over an American city and ordered its residents off the streets. Roaming, this force in their armored personnel carriers, interrogated citizens...
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Clearly Obama agrees with those who believe government exists first and foremost to safeguard the wealth-aggregating abilities of the nation's (and the world's) most powerful people and institutions. That is why he was never serious about a public option for health insurance. He is what leftists had feared 2008 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John...
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How does the U.S. President, a man who ran on a platform of hope and change, maintain a “kill list” and declare that he has the right to assassinate anyone he pleases as long as he regards them as “terrorists,” including Americans?
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It should be remembered that throughout her career, Thatcher was a staunch supporter of many of the world's most brutal regimes, propping up and arming war criminals and dictators in service to Western imperialism, anti-Communism and neoliberal hegemony.
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Let us suppose that some giant pharmaceutical company out there has invested many years of research into developing a pill that would make you feel better. With a single dose you would begin to feel yourself growing calmer. Like magic, all the unimportant little worries and insecurities in your life would simply fade away....
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