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The IRS Scandal Is a Supreme Court Scandal
Karl Rove is the real poster boy for the so-called IRS (Internal Revenue Service) "scandal" of taking a closer look at applications by political organizations seeking a 501(c)(4) tax status that not only makes them tax exempt but protects their donors with anonymity... That 501(c)(4) is one sweet deal: not only do these organizations get untraceable, tax-free money laundering for their political activities, they get a taxpayer subsidy to do it...
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May 17, 2013, 11:32am
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Inspiring and Courageous: Popular Resistance Percolates Throughout the Land
"Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing... One growing series of protests has been the "Moral Monday" demonstrations in North Carolina...
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May 17, 2013, 11:17am
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The Right's 'Scandal' Funhouse Mirror
Robert Parry: Official Washington is captivated by the image of Obama "scandals," including Benghazi talking points and extra IRS questions posed to Tea Party groups, but journalists are peering into the Right's funhouse mirror which for decades has made big scandals small and small scandals big... This funhouse effect was first noticeable during the scandals of Ronald Reagan, when it didn't seem to matter how much evidence was compiled about his complicity in grotesque human rights crimes including genocide in Central America...
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May 15, 2013, 11:22am
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JFK-RFK-MLK??? The Questions Remain
The half-century mark since the assassination of John F Kennedy was supposed to be some kind of event... We were going to get some really huge revelations, some kind of major step forward in coming to terms with this event that has so affected America and so divided its population... Nothing... Hollywood and the media have produced and are producing a body of work that by and large perpetuates the official story of 1963...
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May 10, 2013, 3:57pm
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SELL-OUT SYNDROME From Mohawk Nation News
An Indigenous communal society is made up of humans with familial ties. Each is free, equal and has a voice. All work together to maintain the survival of the extended family. Some are good hunters, or woodsmen, or fishermen or medicine people or tradesmen. Some plant and maintain the agriculture. Some may not be able to contribute. They still have a right to an equal share of the proceeds provided by our mother earth....
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May 9, 2013, 4:46pm
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Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
The commons, simply put, is everything not claimed as private or governmental property. It is the multitude of wonderful things we all share, but rarely consider. The commons includes things you can see and touch, as in beach and mountain, but it is also conceptual. It exists when we decide to work together for a common interest rather than in pursuit of individual gain. Some of us, in our own battles in our communities, have long been fighting for the commons-and didn't even know it.
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May 7, 2013, 1:45pm
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Sandra Day O'Connor's 'Maybe' Regret
Robert Parry: "Ex-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who normally ducks questions about overturning Al Gore's election in 2000 and putting George W. Bush in the White House, admits that "maybe" a mistake was made. But she still won't accept the magnitude of her judicial crime...
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May 2, 2013, 2:28pm
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Dr. King's Timeless Call for Justice
Placing bombs among civilians - as happened at the Boston Marathon - is an inexcusable act, but Americans invite future violence when they ignore how their government's acts of brutality abroad drive people to extremism, a half-century-old lesson from Martin Luther King Jr., as Jose-Antonio Orosco recalls.
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Apr 29, 2013, 5:21pm
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The Blowback from Interventionism
Melvin A. Goodman: "Military tools will not solve the myriad problems that include India vs. Pakistan; Afghanistan vs. Pakistan; Iran vs. Afghanistan, nor defuse the powder kegs that exist in Central Asia. The long-term commitment of military forces and money has further destabilized the region, and contributed to the violence aimed at U.S. forces and even the United States itself... We cannot occupy the entire world. The sooner we close certain doors and turn the keys over to key regional actors, the better off we will be...
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Apr 27, 2013, 10:30am
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It's the Media, Stupid!
Robert Parry: "Rich right-wingers, including the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, are eying the purchase of the Los Angeles Times and other major regional newspapers to create an even bigger platform for their propaganda, a media strategy that dates back several decades...
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Apr 26, 2013, 4:31pm
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How Boston Exposes America's Dark Post-9/11 Bargain
Why did this story drive the whole country nuts? Because we traded rights for "security," and didn't get either.
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Apr 24, 2013, 10:14am
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What to Do with G.W. Bush?
Robert Parry: A major bipartisan study confirms that George W. Bush's administration tortured detainees behind of a facade of legal excuses. The report recommends truth-telling and reforms... The report from the Constitution Project can declare that torture is incompatible with democracy, but it is equally true that if the President can torture anyone he chooses and then walk away - free to attend baseball games, celebrate his presidential library and pose for the cover of "Parade" magazine - then you are not living in a real democracy.
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Apr 21, 2013, 1:51pm
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Tales of Reagan's Guatemala Genocide
Robert Parry: Guatemala is finally putting ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt on trial for genocide in the extermination of hundreds of Mayan villages in the 1980s, but Ronald Reagan remains an American icon despite new evidence of his complicity in this historic crime... From his eight years in the White House, there is no historical indication that he was morally troubled by the bloodbath and even genocide that occurred in Central America while he was shipping hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the implicated forces...
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Apr 17, 2013, 11:00am
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Russia Bars Bush-Era Torture Lawyers
Washington and Moscow exchanged lists imposing sanctions on each other's officials accused of human rights crimes. But America's benefit of the doubt no longer applies, as the Russians named John Yoo and David Addington, Bush-era legal advisers who twisted the law on torture, Robert Parry reports... Perhaps the ultimate measure of America's current standing as a promoter of human rights is that it's difficult to judge which government is the bigger hypocrite: the one in Moscow or the one in Washington.
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Apr 15, 2013, 2:50pm
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A Palestinian Right to Resist?
If journalistic objectivity is applied honestly, it means that all people must have equal standing whether they're "on our side" or not; outrage over human rights crimes can't be selective. But Israeli journalist Amira Hass faced fierce attack when she said Palestinians had a right to resist, as Lawrence Davidson notes...
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Apr 13, 2013, 10:49am
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