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    What About That VA Hospital Scandal?

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY FROMA HARROP The unofficial end of summer, Labor Day, may serve as a bookend to a scandal that exploded around the unofficial start, Memorial Day. We speak of the very long wait times to see primary care providers at veterans hospitals and, more seriously, the doctoring of records by some hospital administrators to hide […]

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    Is Ferguson A Social Media Victim?

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY FROMA HARROP Soon the cameras, protesters, gawkers and tweeters will depart Ferguson, MO, leaving the question: What will be left of this embattled city when the smoke clears? We’ve seen predominantly African-American communities caught up in such turmoil before. We’ve seen the people’s buildings, stores, places of employment and reputation wrecked for decades – […]

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    Missouri Burning: Why Ferguson Is No Surprise

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY JOE CONASON The past week’s unfolding tragedy in Ferguson, MO, with its militarized and overwhelmingly white police force confronting angry and hopeless African-Americans, is not a story unique to that place or this moment. Many cities and towns in this country confront the same problems of poverty, alienation and inequality as metropolitan St. Louis […]

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    What Went Wrong In Ferguson

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY SUSAN ESTRICH The short answer is: everything. I’m not talking about the killing of Michael Brown. A tragedy, whatever the facts. But what the facts are is something we don’t yet know. There are two conflicting stories: one of an unarmed teenager shot six times while his hands were in the air; the other […]

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    What We’ve Paid For Non-Stop War

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER War is Hell. Major General Harold Greene could certainly tell you all about that – but, sadly, he’s dead. On Aug. 5, General Green became the highest-ranking American soldier to die in our unfathomable, 13-year war in Afghanistan, joining 2,339 other service members who’ve paid the ultimate price for being sent by […]

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