PATRICE GREANVILLE
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JASON MILLER
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ED DUVIN
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Arts & Culture, Voxpop
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Arts & Culture, Voxpop
Gary Corseri, Senior Editor,
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Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti, Senior Editor,
Poetry, Photography & Life Chronicles
Susan Rosenthal, Senior Editor, Medicine, Politics & Empowerment
Steven Jonas, Special Contributing Editor, Politics & Culture
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It’s the Oil —hard lessons in realpolitik click here |
Are you a Liberal?Do you think you're middle class? Do you swear by individualism? Are you black or gay? Then this article is for you.Beware the Middle GroundBY SUSAN ROSENTHAL Click here |
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"PATRIA ES HUMANIDAD" (Humanity is Our Fatherland)
Motto of Havana Fire Department
BONUS TO OUR READERS—HUMOR RELIEF | Comedy • Political Cartoons by the likes of Ruben Bolling et al
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THE GREAT GEORGE CARLIN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
George on the greatest oxymoron ever:
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"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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COULD YOU DEBATE A RIGHTWING OR MAINSTREAM TV HOST?
See the instructive exchange between CLG's Michael Rectenwad & Tucker Carlson.
ENORMOUS SUFFERING, TAKEN FOR GRANTED
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Neither the mindnumbing magnitude of our tyranny over nature, especially "factory farm animals," nor its ubiquitousness, should blind us to the fact that a horrendous crime is being committed here. [READ MORE] PHOTO: Orphan badly traumatized monkey has managed to bond with this dove in one of China's animal sanctuaries.
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ELOQUENTLY PUT
"Those who take the trouble to look will apprehend the disastrous results of the ruling elites’ pathology: wars of choice sold to a credulous citizenry by public relations confidence artists; a predatory economy that benefits one percent of the population; a demoralized, deeply ignorant populace who are either unaware of or indifferent to the difference between the virtues and vicissitudes of the electoral processes of a democratic republic, in contrast to the schlock circus, financed by big money corporatist, being inflicted upon us, at present..."
Even in Iraq
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DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY 2007 Open Letter to the New Generation of Military Officers Serving and Protecting Our Nation |
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The Ways and Whys of Female-to-Female Bullying |
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WILLIAM BLUM"S LATEST ANTI-EMPIRE REPORT Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life |
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The vultures have begun circling above, as they await Fidel's departure: Comment by Monthly Review's editors |
MYTHMAKING IN ESTONIA—Alevtina Rea
INDISPENSABLE ARCHIVES Is redemption possible? Can hardened racists change their ways? The life of ex-Klan leader C.P. Ellis provides hope that anything can happen. Here's the legendary INTERVIEW with Studs Terkel.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER: When pedantry passes as a high form of journalism [READ MORE ]
PUTTING BLACK FACES ON IMPERIAL POLICIES Sophisticated bamboozlement is the weapon of choice in what still passes for a democracy. But Glen Ford ain't taken in by this imposture, especially when it seduces African Americans to front for imperial policies...[READ ON]
SPECIAL FEATURE: HAROLD PINTER'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE NOBELS
AND NOW, OUTING THE "L' WORD, AND THAT'S FOR LIBERTARIAN, CHUM.....don't miss this one! [READ IT HERE] And be sure to check the latest installment on Cyrano's Thomas Paine's Corner CLICK HERE
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Cyrano is not only about ultra-serious (and often depressing) matters...we also have an ear for good music and a discerning eye for unusually talented artists. Such is the case with this gifted young virtuoso. CHECK IT OUT.
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