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Now that the Republican Party has officially endorsed a stringent abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, it’s worth considering what widespread state-level abortion bans would mean for women across the country.

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Gary Younge Primetime on Tuesday night took place not just on split screens but parallel universes. On one side of the Gulf of Mexico every agency of government was being marshalled to prevent hurricane Isaac destroying New Orleans. On the other side in Tampa speaker after speaker at the Republican convention implored government to get out of the way because it was wrecking the country

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George Monbiot There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening.

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China.

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Tom Engelhardt It was never exactly rocket science.  You didn’t have to be Einstein to figure it out.  In early 2003, the Bush administration was visibly preparing to invade Iraq, a nation with a nasty ruler who himself hadn’t hesitated to invade another country, Iran, in the early 1980s for no purpose except self-aggrandizement.  (And the Reagan administration had backed him in that disastrous war because then, as now, Washington loathed the Iranians.)  There was never the slightest eviden read more

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Greg Muttitt In 2011, after nearly nine years of war and occupation, U.S. troops finally left Iraq

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Brian Moench Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, ran for President of the United States in 1844. Ever since then a rumor has circulated among Mormons known as the “White Horse Prophecy”: that the day would come when the U.S. Constitution would “hang by a thread” and a member of the Mormon priesthood would save the Constitution and the country

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Dean Baker In principle the country faces a choice this fall between a moderate conservative, President Obama, and the extreme conservative Romney-Ryan ticket that wants to privatize Social Security and Medicare and eliminate most of the services that the public expects from the federal government. The reason why this choice only exists in principle is that the media have worked hard to conceal Representative Ryan’s extreme positions from the public. read more

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Matthew Rothschild Score two for the movement against nuclear power in this country.

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Organizing for America Wisconsin has emerged as a potent political force from within a state seething with political and labor tensions.

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