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The Nominee
by Jim Tuohy As Election Day approaches it might be useful if we citizens were presented with more information about the family of Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, which I will now provide as a...
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No More Media for Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch — the guy who’s under investigation in England for phone hacking, influence peddling and bribery — wants to get his mitts on the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune1,2. These are...
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We Want it to Stop
by Kathy Kelly Young men from Beit Hanoun tell visitors what happened when Israeli rockets hit their neighbourhood on November 15, 2012, killing two children Across the road, the home of Jamal Abdul...
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Gaza’s Only Fisherwoman…
Continues to Sail by Joshua Brollier Madleen Kulab December 26, 2012 “The problems started for me at eighteen,” Madleen Kulab said quietly, sitting just meters from the shore of the Mediterranean....
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The Deep Wound of Wounded Knee
by Johnny Barber December 29th marks the 122nd anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee. It is a story that remains fresh in the lives of many indigenous peoples across America. Each generation is...
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When Will We Realize…
That It Is Murder? by Tom McNamara (From Counterpunch Magazine) Saint-Cyr, Coëtquidan, France. In his essay “A Hanging,” George Orwell recounts, in great detail, the events he witnessed leading up to...
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Afghan Peace Volunteer Says:
Drones Bury Beautiful Lives Raz Mohammad: Salam ‘aleikum. I am Raz Mohammad. I’m from Maidan Wardak province and I’m Pashtun. Raz Mohammad speaks out on drones in Afghanistan Kathy Kelly: Raz...
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(From an interview with Kathy Kelly on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman. Kathy Kelly is co chair of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, the Uptown based group of peace activists.) AMY GOODMAN: Kathy,...
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Still Ain’t Ready for Reform
by Dick Simpson Once again the Chicago City Council proved it’s not ready for reform. Recently, the council voted unanimously to pass the second set of reforms proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Ethics...
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What Is the War Getting Us?
(From Voices for Creative Non-Violence) by Patrick Kennelly and Emmey Malloy Kabul, Afghanistan– This is the phrase that ordinary Afghans keep asking the small group of international peacemakers who...
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King of the Rubber Stamp
Mayor Emanuel already has more control over City Council than mayors Daley and Daley did by Dick Simpson Mayor Rahm Emanuel is truly king of Chicago’s rubber stamp City Council. In his first two years...
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Drones, Sanctions and the Prison Industrial Complex
by Brian Terrell In the final weeks of a six month prison sentence for protesting remote control murder by drones, specifically from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, I can only reflect on my time...
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