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Who paid for the Log Cabin Republicans’ anti-Hagel NYT ad?
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/30/hagel-log-cabin-republicans-ad The gay GOP group confirms the ad was funded by outside donors, but refuses to identify them or...
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Ten of My Favorite Things about 2012
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/31-4 by Medea Benjamin Published on Monday, December 31, 2012 by Common Dreams There are many things to be thankful for in 2012, starting...
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Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George: Same-sex marriage ‘violates natural law’
From LGBTQ Nation: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/12/chicagos-cardinal-francis-george-same-sex-marriage-violates-natural-law/ Staff Report Sunday, December 30, 2012 With Illinois state lawmakers...
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Edie Windsor, DOMA Plaintiff, Says Gay Benefits Of Supreme Court Case ‘Bigger...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/31/edie-windsor-doma-plainti_n_2388292.html By Larry Neumeister 12/30/12 NEW YORK — At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for...
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Sexual violence is not a cultural phenomenon in India – it is endemic everywhere
From The Independent UK: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/sexual-violence-is-not-a-cultural-phenomenon-in-india–it-is-endemic-everywhere-8433445.html Owen Jones Sunday 30 December 2012 We...
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The New America Is Not About Identity Politics
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13622-the-new-america-is-not-about-identity-politics By Charles Derber Monday, 31 December 2012 The prevailing narrative is that President Obama’s...
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Coveting Horns, Ruthless Smugglers’ Rings Put Rhinos in the Cross Hairs
Capital punishment for anyone involved it the trade in body parts from any endangered species. From The New York Times:...
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Protest Tactics in a Warming World
From In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14282/protest_tactics_in_a_warming_world What will it take to push back climate change? BY Eric Moll December 31, 2012 On Nov. 16, 2012, an...
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Lisa Jackson’s legacy at the Environmental Protection Agency
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/01/lisa-jackson-legacy-environmental-protection-agency The lauded EPA chief departs an agency that has reasserted its regulatory...
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Everything We Tell Ourselves About America and the World Is Wrong
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/visions/everything-we-tell-ourselves-about-america-and-world-wrong Why we need a new story that gives meaning to the world. By Charles Eisenstein December 29,...
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The Ongoing War: After the Battle Over the Cliff, the Battle Over the Debt...
From Robert Reich: http://robertreich.org/post/39402888541 Robert Reich Tuesday, January 1, 2013 “It’s not all I would have liked,” says Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, speaking...
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View From the Left: Obama ‘Kept Giving Stuff Away’
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/us/politics/some-liberals-say-obama-squandered-his-tax-leverage.html By PETER BAKER Published: January 1, 2013 WASHINGTON — For President...
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6 Reasons Joseph Stiglitz and Other Top Economists Think Means-Testing...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/6-reasons-joseph-stiglitz-and-other-top-economists-think-means-testing-medicare Means-testing is a back-door strategy for taking away benefits...
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A Year to Begin the World Over Again
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/171956/year-begin-world-over-again# John Nichols on January 1, 2013 America was called into being not with mere cannon fire or musket shots but with...
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Transgender conference calling it quits after 30 years
From Windy City Media Group: http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Transgender-conference-calling-it-quits-after-30-years/40974.html by Kate Sosin, Windy City Times 2012-12-31 Citing waning...
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The missing transgender woman, and what’s (not) being done
From LGBTQ Nation: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/12/the-missing-transgender-woman-and-whats-not-being-done/ By Zack Budryk Monday, December 31, 2012 There’s a particularly cynical exchange in an...
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War Addiction Default: America’s Political Dysfunction at Root is an...
From This Can’t Be Happening: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1502 by: Dave Lindorff Thu, 01/03/2013 I was asked earlier this week by an reporter for PressTV, the state television network in...
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Late Stage Capitalism And The Shame Haunted Life: You Can’t Kill Trauma With...
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/04-4 by Phil Rockstroh Published on Friday, January 4, 2013 by Common Dreams “Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William...
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The four business gangs that run the US
From The Sydney Morning Herald Au: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-four-business-gangs-that-run-the-us-20121230-2c1e2.html Ross Gittins December 31, 2012 IF YOU’VE ever suspected politics is...
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