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It’s Never Been About the Second Amendment. It’s About Corporate Profits.

A similar assault rifle was used in recent mass-murders in Newtown, Ct.; Las Vegas; San Bernardino, Calif.; Sutherland Springs,...

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War Profiteering Ain’t Physics

Albert Einstein spent the last two decades of his life in a frustrating quest to bring together all the forces of nature into a single set...

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It’s Not Enough to Fight Trump — Progressives Need a Vision for the Future

It’s heartening to see so many folks out in the streets standing up to our new president and his proposed team of racists and...

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HOW TO VOTE WHEN THERE’S NO LESSER EVIL

JILL STEIN, THE GREEN PARTY NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT, WANTS YOUR SUPPORT. Her platform seeks to move “from the greed and exploitation of...

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The Bizarre Experience of Agreeing with Trump

In a rare moment of candor in the Dec. 15, 2015, Republican debate, Donald Trump acknowledged how our misguided policies since 9/11 have...

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Bernie Is Right: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Alive and Well

During the last Democratic debate, the presidential candidates pledged to make defeating ISIS a priority. But more significant was...

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Obama’s Drone Policy Crashes and Burns

The unraveling of Yemen should be a wake-up call for Obama loyalists. Obama was elected in large part because of his opposition to the...

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It’s Not the Koran, It’s Us

For a brief time after the 9/11 terror attacks, Americans could be heard asking the reasonable question: Why do these men from Middle...

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Christmas Comes Early for War Profiteers

Today, while the radical warrior cult that now calls itself Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is taking over large swaths of Iraq and...

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CIA No Evil

Why is President Obama’s Justice Department threatening a Pulitzer Prize-wining New York Times reporter with jail over a story...

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