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Is Democracy Melting?
By Arundhati Roy

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While we’re still arguing about whether there’s life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By “democracy” I don’t mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the working model: Western liberal democracy, and its variants, such as they are. So, is there life after democracy?

The U.S. Creeps Closer To A Police State
By Shamus Cooke

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Why does the destruction of democratic rights that accelerated under Bush continue with Obama? With every political “why” question one must first answer: who benefits?

Police State Raids Against Immigrants
By Stephen Lendman

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Along with Muslims, Latinos are its prime targets, often using militarized unconstitutional tactics against vulnerable, defenseless people. Post-9/11, the Bush administration initiated them, and they continue under Obama

The Darkening Of Our Black Hole
By Case Wagenvoord

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Black holes are formed when a star collapses and their gravitational pull is so great that no matter can resist it. The star that collapsed in America was democracy, and the void left by its destruction is pulling all that once was into its darkness

Obama Stuck Between Wars On Iraq, Afghanistan
By Nicola Nasser

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Nine months in office, Obama is still wondering: “Are we doing the right thing?” “Are we pursuing the right strategy?” If Obama has yet to decide on a strategy on Afghanistan, in hindsight, one might ask: why did he send there seventeen thousand additional troops earlier this year!

Israel’s Palestinian Soldiers
By Jonathan Cook

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Demands from Israel’s chief commander this month that all Israeli citizens should be required to perform national service has turned the spotlight on a rarely discussed group of soldiers: members of Israel’s Palestinian minority

Systemic Collapse: The Basics
By Peter Goodchild

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Systemic collapse has one overwhelming cause: world overpopulation. All of the flash-in-the-pan ideas that are presented as solutions to the modern dilemma — solar power, ethanol, hybrid cars, desalination, permaculture — have value only as desperate attempts to solve an underlying problem that has never been addressed in a more direct manner

Balance Is For Buddhists
By Guy R McPherson

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Instead of extracting an easy life from fossil fuels and human slaves, while taking our life-support system down into the bowels of hell with us, let’s try living as our predecessors did on this land. Never mind abandoning our beloved cars: In North and South America, we’ll need to give up the wheel

Italy’s Fallen Soldiers
By Stephanie Westbrook

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The best way to honor the fallen is to stop making more of them

Max Boot: Vulgar Propagandist
And Apologist For War Crimes
By Max Kantar

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The recent publication of the UNHRC’s report on Israel’s December-January assault on the Gaza Strip, also known as the Goldstone Report, has elicited some rather hysterical reactions from Israel’s leading apologists. Perhaps among the most desperate of the attempts to deflect legitimate criticism of Israeli war crimes is an article entitled, “The Goldstone Report,” written by Max Boot

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