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27 July 2008
Like the little satans we are
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Jason Miller
For Sylvia

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human...
22 July 2008
Descent Into Chaos
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Jim Miles
Descent Into Chaos – The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid. Viking (Penguin) New York, 2008.

The popular news reporting from Pakistan is limited...
16 July 2008
Earth threatened, problems proliferate: what are progressives to do?
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Robert J. Sheak
The Warming of the Earth

Rising temperatures are altering the earth’s climate in fundamental ways and threatening life as we know it. The preeminent climate expert in the U.S. government, and perhaps in the world, is James...
14 July 2008
Sneak Preview of "Count My Vote - A Citizen's Guide to Voting" by Steven Rosenfeld
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Joan Brunwasser
Count my vote – a citizen's guide to voting by Steven Rosenfeld

Forewarned is Forearmed

AlterNet has been around for the last ten years, bringing its millions of monthly readers the latest in award-winning,...
19 June 2008
An Immodest Proposal: Sink your teeth into this...
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Jason Miller
Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are...
04 June 2008
By 2030: only renewable energy!
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Ted Glick
“In 1992, Bill Clinton put the call for universal health care at the center of his program. But, once president, his closeness to Wall Street and his intellectual dependence on Robert Rubin of Wall Street made him leery of antagonizing the...

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