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    The Ongoing Farce Of The Green Summits

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    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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    Republicans Swoon Over Holder’s ‘Partisan’ Leak Probers [and Forget Ken Starr]

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    BY JOE CONASON This week, Republicans on Capitol Hill opened yet another front in their continuous sniping against the Obama Administration, the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder. Having demanded a federal investigation of intelligence leaks, they now claim to be outraged because Holder has asked two United States attorneys to conduct that probe […]

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    The Long, Hot Summer Of Work

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    BY FROMA HARROP With summer’s arrival comes a journalistic convention that seems more and more dated. It is the “summer reading list” of books, often beside a graphic showing a bathing suit and sunglasses. Sure, I’d like to check out Douglas Brinkley’s biography of Walter Cronkite and Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall. Heck, I’d […]

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    Super PACs, Secret Money Destroying American Democracy

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America’s most useful citizens, to sum up our country’s present political plight in a succinct metaphor: “Our elections have replaced horse racing as the sport of kings. These kings are multibillionaire corporate moguls who by divine right – not of God, but [of the Supreme […]

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    Thirty-Seven Words

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH It was 40 years ago that Congress passed the Education Amendments of 1972. Tucked into the bill was an amendment sponsored by then-Sen. Birch Bayh, which provided: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected […]

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