To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

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    Raise Taxes To Cut Government?

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    BY FROMA HARROP As the debate rages over letting some of the Bush tax cuts expire, Republicans have raised their starve-the-beast theory from its coffin. They insist that government [the “beast”] can be shrunk by cutting taxes: The less money government has, the less government there can be. Time has not been kind to this […]

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    How Megrahi and Libya Were Framed for the Lockerbie Bombing

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    BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Amid all the bellowing about the release on compassionate grounds of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, with 281 dead, all current commentary and congressional hearings ignore the hippo in the room, which is that Megrahi is innocent, framed by the U.S. and British […]

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    Our Secret Leviathan

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    BY JOE CONASON Back in the bad old days of the Cold War – when mutual nuclear annihilation was a policy option – a culture of secrecy arose in Washington. What wise observers understood even then was that while governments tried to keep secrets from each other, their chief concern was to keep secrets from […]

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    ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Updated

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    Editor’s Note: Froma Harrop is on vacation. This is an updated version of a column that first appeared Dec. 28, 2003. BY FROMA HARROP The most wrong assumption in the sci-fi movie classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” was that technology would liberate humans from a life of hassle. Made 42 years ago, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece […]

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    Grinning Bankers

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Like ugly on a toad, banker greed just can’t be rinsed off, no matter how much regulatory soap you use. Last week, Congress enacted new rules to govern America’s huge banks, thus completing Washington’s response to the unbridled Wall Street greed that crashed the financial system and crushed our economy. The regulatory […]

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