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Take Heart, Conservatives: It’s Not Your Fault

Arnold Hamilton - June 28, 2012 0

BY VERN TURNER Someone smart once said that all politics are local. The politics around my town are decidedly conservative – that is, the people...

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The War Against Battered And Confused Addicts

Arnold Hamilton - June 26, 2012 0

BY FROMA HARROP Rodney King’s best statement isn’t what he’s famous for. Twenty years ago, the African-American suffered a sadistic beating at the hands of white Los Angeles police, an event caught on tape. When the officers were acquitted of brutality charges, rioting convulsed largely black South Central Los Angeles. The pandemonium cost 53 lives […]

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Where’s The Corporate Patriotism?

Arnold Hamilton - June 25, 2012 0

BY RALPH NADER What would happen if we asked the executives of the giant U.S. corporations, whose products constantly surround us, to show some corporate...

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The Ongoing Farce Of The Green Summits

Arnold Hamilton - June 24, 2012 0

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The predictable word is in from Rio de Janeiro: failure. The conference 20 years on from the huge 1992 Earth Summit in Rio has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the world’s community to sustainable principles. The reason? These conferences have always been a fraud, […]

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