Month: March 2010

Bibi’s Got to Go

If it’s true that Obama and Netanyahu are at the point of no return, then it’s clear that Netanyahu and his ultra-right allies must go. With the U.S. military flatly asserting that Israel is a security and diplomatic...

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Reducing the Things They Carry

Crossposted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard PollackThe majority of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa– in some areas up to 80 percent– are women. The average female farmer in the region is responsible...

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The Right Finds Virtue in Extremism

During his acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican convention, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” But was he correct? Last weekend, those words...

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No Taxes Paid By Big Banks

Big Corporations are people too. I know this because the Supreme Court told me so. They have all the rights that you and I have, and often more (they can afford more after all). For example, lots of big corporations rarely have...

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