Blackwater Quits!!

 Staff  March 7, 2008  4 Comments on Blackwater Quits!!

Blackwater has quit! Yeah! We have been notified by several friends that Blackwater has pulled their application for a mercenary…

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Health Care: Failure and Reform and the Candidates’ Proposals

 JEC  March 7, 2008  1 Comment on Health Care: Failure and Reform and the Candidates’ Proposals

By JEC We, the collective we, the national we, the “we”‘ we call America, we have the health care system…

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Giddy Up! Cops on Patrol in OB

 Patty Jones  March 7, 2008  2 Comments on Giddy Up! Cops on Patrol in OB

From our roving reporter on the scene…. The mounties have invaded Ocean Beach!   Mounted police officers were seen today…

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Behind Obama and Clinton

 Staff  March 7, 2008  0 Comments on Behind Obama and Clinton

Stephen Zunes Voters on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party are rightly disappointed by the similarity of the foreign…

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America Behind Bars: Why Attempts at Prison Reform Keep Failing

 Staff  March 7, 2008  0 Comments on America Behind Bars: Why Attempts at Prison Reform Keep Failing

A bloated prison system is against the country’s best interests. Yet “tough on crime” rhetoric has gotten in the way…

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Obama’s Good and Proper War

 Staff  March 5, 2008  1 Comment on Obama’s Good and Proper War

By Paul Street Throughout his Senate career and the presidential campaign, the supposed “peace candidate” Barack Obama has reassured the…

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War is Hell, But What the Hell Does it Cost?

 Staff  March 4, 2008  1 Comment on War is Hell, But What the Hell Does it Cost?

One Week at War in Iraq and Afghanistan for $3.5 Billion By William D. Hartung War is hell — deadly,…

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Gazan Holocaust

 Staff  March 3, 2008  1 Comment on Gazan Holocaust

The Day the Earth and Sky Traded Places By Jennifer Loewenstein CounterPunch Around 10:30pm on the night of February 28,…

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The Ralph Nadir

 Gregg Robinson  March 3, 2008  13 Comments on The Ralph Nadir

First Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Farce, Third Time as Footnote — (I Hope) I don’t feel the anger…

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