05 March 2013
Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi amigo
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Greg Palast
For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today.
 Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It’s the oil. And it’s the Koch Brothers –...
27 February 2013
Witnesses at a drone hearing
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David Swanson
This coming Wednesday the House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing on "Drones and the War On Terror: When Can the U.S. Target Alleged American Terrorists Overseas?"

This is odd for a number of reasons.

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26 February 2013
Voting rights act as needed as ever
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Jesse Jackson
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby v. Holder. On the same day, across the street in the congressional rotunda, a statue honoring Rosa Parks will be unveiled. And one week...
25 February 2013
Top U.S. terrorist group: The FBI
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David Swanson
A careful study of the FBI's own data on terrorism in the United States, reported in Trevor Aaronson's book The Terror Factory, finds one organization leading all others in creating terrorist plots in the United States: the FBI.
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19 February 2013
Guns, not the Klan, are the real threat
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Jesse Jackson
Chicago suffers unbearable levels of gun violence, yet the victims remain largely silent. They travel from funeral home to graveyard, rather than march from church to gun shop. The president is applauded when he calls for action on gun...
18 February 2013
Diseased racist voting system needs a cure
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Bob Fitrakis
The February 18, 2013 front page of the New York Times proclaimed “Voting Rights Act is Challenged as Cure the South Outgrown.” In reality, the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 is needed now, nationally, more than ever.

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