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Somali men in new ‘terrorism’ cases
A Somali-American accused of planning a Christmas bomb attack in Oregon appears to be the latest victim of an FBI-generated bogus "terrorism" plot.
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Karl Marx and the Emancipation Proclamation
Kevin B. Anderson, author of Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies, draws the link from Lincoln's radicalization to the First International.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Dakota massacre recalled
At a ceremony in Minnesota, Dakota Indians and their supporters commemorated the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in US history—ordered by President Lincoln.
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Conspiracy vultures descend on Newtown
Paranoid conspiracy theories proliferate about the Newtown massacre, adding to the noise of pro- and anti-gun control voices that all distract us from the fundamental questions.
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SOA protests continue; Church expels activist priest
Thousands attended the annual protest against the US Army’s School of the Americas while the Catholic Church dismissed the priest who launched the protests 22 years ago.
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‘Occupy the Farm’ evicted in East Bay
A UC Berkeley research field in Albany that had been planted with winter greens by Occupy activists was ploughed under at the order of university authorities.
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Montana voters: corporations are not people
In a landslide victory, Montana voters approved an initiative stating “that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights because they are not human beings.”
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Obama’s re-election: more historic than 2008?
Obama was re-elected with a shrinking minority of the white vote compared to 2008. This bodes poorly for the GOP's future, and also explains its radicalization.
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Ninth Circuit keeps Montana campaign finance law —for upcoming election
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that it will keep Montana’s campaign contribution limits in place for the duration of the election season, turning down a challenge.
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MS-13 gang makes US ‘criminal organization’ list
Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran street gang that got its start in Los Angeles' Koreatown, has been officially designated by US authorities as an "transnational criminal organization."
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The Republicans are the party of white supremacy: deal with it
Both parties represent global empire and corporate rule. But it is also clear that this election is turning into a referendum on whether the USA should be a white republic.
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Oops, did we say ‘anarchist’? We meant ‘Republican’…
It turns out that the ringleader in the supposed "anarchist" terror conspiracy hatched by privates at Fort Stewart served as a page at the 2008 GOP convention in St. Paul.