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Thomas Steinbeck

Thomas Steinbeck is a photographer and an author. He is the son of John Steinbeck.

September 27th, 2010

John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism

My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves. Under his guidance ...

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Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

September 27th, 2010

Firefighter’s Family Gets the Healthcare Boot

You’ve seen them. I’ve seen them. Around Labor Day especially. Firefighters standing on the street corners of America with firefighters’ boots collecting money for Jerry’s kids, kids who have muscular dystrophy. What we often don’t see or hear are the stories behind some of those street-corner firefighter-fundraisers. I heard one ...

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Coleen Rowley

FBI Whistleblower

September 26th, 2010

Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Faze FBI Raids on Midwestern Anti-war Activists

The war on dissent, rather than terrorism, continued full steam with FBI SWAT teams breaking down doors at 7 am Friday (Sept 24) morning and raiding the homes of several anti-war leaders and activists in Minneapolis, Chicago and possibly a couple other Midwest cities. Members of the FBI's "Joint Terrorism ...

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Jeff Cohen

Director, Park Center

September 25th, 2010

Colbert Annoys Press Corps ... Again

Let's face it: Some in the Washington press corps still resent Stephen Colbert because he so brilliantly lampooned them to their faces at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner over their coziness with the Bush White House. Yesterday, some elite journalists couldn't contain their anger after Colbert testified before Congress ...

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Fr. Dick Preston

Father Dick Preston is the priest who married Michael Moore and his wife and is featured in 'Capitalism: A Love Story.'

September 25th, 2010

Prayer and Thanksfulness Given

Having just heard that the Genesys Healthcare management and the unionized LPN/technical staff are going back to the negotiation table, we offer this simple prayer: We thank you, God of Creation, we of Genesys Health management and employees, as we choose to come back together to discuss, negotiate, and share ...

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Joan Wile

Founder, Grandmothers Against the War

September 23rd, 2010

Gray Panthers Urge an End to Tax Cuts for the Rich

The Panthers are dedicated to creating a humane society where the needs of people are put over profit.As the tax-cut debate rages through the Senate, the House, and among the prospective candidates for public office, the Gray Panthers are firmly committed to their stance that tax cuts for the wealthy ...

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Matthew Kavanagh

Matthew Kavanagh is the Director of US Advocacy for Health GAP (Global Access Project), a global AIDS activist organization

September 23rd, 2010

UN Explores Which is Harder: Fighting AIDS and Poverty or Getting Rich Countries to Keep Their Promises

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit has concluding here in New York and it seems clear that there is good news and bad news. The good news is that people from around the world have gathered to continue to fight poverty, food insecurity, and poor health. The bad news ...

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Other Worlds

Economic Justice

September 23rd, 2010

Getting Their Reward on Earth: Haitian Social Movements and Reconstruction

“There needs to be a new vision for Haiti, and that vision needs to come from the people,” says Marc-Arthur Fils-Aimé, director of the Karl Leveque Cultural Institute (commonly known by its Creole acronym ICKL), a grassroots center which supports peasant and other popular organizations to help them develop their ...

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Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

September 21st, 2010

A Divide So Wide, A Disconnect So Deep

Our national obsession with individualism and the attainment of personal wealth is so sick and so deep for some of our fellow citizens that even the bonds of marriage are often no match for the selfishness. A woman with advanced breast cancer schedules her chemo and her radiation so that ...

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Ann Wright

Retired State Dept. Official

September 21st, 2010

A Campaign To Free Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning is accused of telling the truth. He now faces decades in prison for letting Americans see the truth about our wars on Iraq and Afghanistan by allegedly leaking the “Collateral Murder” videos -- of two Reuters’ journalists being shot and killed by a U.S. helicopter -- to WikiLeaks. ...

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Dean Baker

Co-Director, CEPR

September 21st, 2010

The Terrible Tale of the TARP Two Years Later

Two years ago, the top honchos at the Fed, Treasury and the Wall Street banks were running around like Chicken Little warning that the world was about to end. This fear mongering, together with a big assist from the elite media (i.e. NPR, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, ...

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Joan Wile

Founder, Grandmothers Against the War

September 18th, 2010

We, Too, Saw Through the Lies

Dear Michael Moore:I applaud you for opposing the war back then when most people, including liberal big-leaguers, were so gullible and cowed that they actually supported the Bush crime syndicate's sinister plot. I know you were razzed and attacked for speaking out and I am certainly sympathetic for the hard ...

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Jeff Cohen

Director, Park Center

September 16th, 2010

Christine O’Donnell and Me

I knew Christine O’Donnell as an ideologue of uptightness -- with a fervent position on every issue under the sun. I saw her up close when we debated during one of her several Phil Donahue show appearances in 2002-03 on MSNBC, where I worked as an on-air contributor and Donahue ...

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Other Worlds

Economic Justice

September 16th, 2010

"Help Us Produce, Don't Give Us Food": Food Sovereignty in Haiti (Part IV)

Jonas Deronzil is a farmer from the village of Mogé in Haiti’s fertile Artibonite Valley, and one of about 2,000 members of a production and marketing cooperative. Here he analyzes the problems Haitian small producers face, notably U.S. food imports, and proposes alternatives.I am a peasant planter, that’s all I ...

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Dahr Jamail

Independent Journalist

September 13th, 2010

Evidence Mounts of BP Spraying Toxic Dispersants

Shirley and Don Tillman, residents of Pass Christian, Mississippi, have owned shrimp boats, an oyster boat and many pleasure boats. They spent much time on the Gulf of Mexico before working in BP's Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program looking for and trying to clean up oil.Don decided to work in ...

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Eric Allen Bell

Filmmaker

September 13th, 2010

One Mosque Too Many?

MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE: a small town with nearly 200 churches where a single mosque is one mosque too many. Murfreesboro is home to the one of the largest universities in Middle Tennessee where the ROTC building is named after the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest. And on ...

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Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

September 11th, 2010

For One Day, No Hate Crime

The world mobilizes around the issue of religious intolerance – and the media has done its part. The Gainesville minister who shows hatred and religious intolerance on behalf of a Christian God clearly does not speak for all Christians even if he claims to know the will of God. Hatred ...

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Other Worlds

Economic Justice

September 9th, 2010

"The Last Thing to Lose are Your Dignity and Hope": Haitian Refugee Camps Model Future Society (Part II)

If one positive thing has come from the earthquake of January 12, it is the greater inclusion of Haiti in the human family. True, the catastrophe has brought out of the woodwork many scoundrels – individuals, corporations, agencies, and governments – looking to gain wealth and power off of poverty ...

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Bill Quigley

Law Professor

September 7th, 2010

The United States of Fear – Ten Examples

Since September 11, 2001, fear has been the main engine of change in the United States. Who would have thought that across the US, where people boast that it is the home of the free and the land of the brave, people would gladly surrender their freedom and liberty because ...

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Alan Grayson

U.S. Congressman

September 6th, 2010

What Robert Kennedy Said

Today is Labor Day. All across America, millions of people are discovering that the best way to celebrate Labor Day is by not working.Do you live to work, or do you work to live?If you are married, look at your wedding album: Are there any pictures in there of you ...

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Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

September 6th, 2010

News Flash, “Tony Orlando Postponed” – Oh, and 123 Dead Again Today

This morning as I was pulling my Labor Day weekend brain cells back to consciousness with my first morning cup of coffee, I saw the scroll. “Tony Orlando concert postponed in New Jersey amid fears of Hurricane Earl aftermath.” I almost flew out of my chair. I watched for a ...

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Cindy Sheehan

Gold Star Mom, Activist

September 4th, 2010

Page Turning, Etc.

“As we do, (turn the “page” in Iraq) I am mindful that the Iraq War has been a contentious issue at home. Here, too, it is time to turn the page. This afternoon, I spoke to former President George W. Bush. It’s well known that he and I disagreed about ...

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Michael Prysner

Iraq War Veteran, Anti-War Activist

September 3rd, 2010

Blood Flows in Afghanistan as Obama Proclaims ‘End’ to Iraq War

As the month of August came to an end, it seemed that something may happen in Afghanistan for the first time in 2010: that the month would not surpass the previous year’s record-setting number of U.S. troop fatalities.By Aug. 27, only 31 U.S. troops had been killed in combat; 20 ...

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Bill Quigley

Law Professor

September 2nd, 2010

Another False Ending: Contracting out the Iraq Occupation

By Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond. Bill and Laura work at the Center for Constitutional Rights.Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark ...

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Dean Baker

Co-Director, CEPR

September 2nd, 2010

Senator Simpson's Quick Budget Quiz

President Obama is apparently content to have an abrasive and abusive senator's son sit as co-chairman of his deficit commission. We can assume that these traits were a direct result of Sen. Alan Simpson's privileged upbringing and he is not going to change now that he is in his late ...

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