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We Thought We Were Electing a Prius, and Got a Tank Instead: The Last Gasps of Empireapos;

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — President Obama has turned out to be perhaps the last President with the opportunity to cut us free from the past. And, instead, he holds onto that anchor is if it were a life jacket as it pulls us down, leaving us to look longingly at what might save us from afar. The promise of an evolving and sustainable America is within our reach, but thus far not within Obamaapos;s grasp. Read More
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AFTER FINANCIAL "REFORM," WHAT HAVE WE WON?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — FInancial "Reform" Is About to Pass. What will it accomplish? What remains to be Done? Read More
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McChrystal Falls: Another Casualty of a War Weapos;re Losing

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — McChrystalapos;s fall from grace is symptomatic of the monumental and escalating quagmire that constitutes the Anglo-American war in Afghanistan, a war that the US Armyapos;s own experts believe is being lost. Obama needs to re-think the US relationship with the Pakistani ISI, which is, as the White House knows well, actually sponsoring the insurgency under our noses. Read More
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ASEAN must have a specific evaluation on unfair polls in Burma

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — The UN should also urge Asean leaders to make concerted efforts on democratization in Burma. Burma is likely to come under the international limelight for its continued detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and 2,200 political prisoners ahead of its so-called elections for disciplined democracy. Read More
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This Year Anti-Incumbency Movement Succeeds or Fails

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Is American democracy dead? This yearapos;s midterm elections will give an answer. It all depends on whether congressional incumbents are voted out, for a change. Read More
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Can We Let The Indigenous Participants in the Af/Pak War Forge a Peace Deal?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Despite the recent focus on the fait of Genapos;l McChrystal much more has been happening behind the scenes in the Af/Pak war. Leaders of the Pakistani intelligence and the military are working to broker a peace deal incorporating elements of the Taliban in a post war settlement. Can we get out of the way and let the indigenous participants in the Af/Pak arena forge a peace deal? Are we willing t Read More
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Conservatively Ignorant!

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — This is a story abour a conservative man from the south who thought Barack Obama was a foreigner for all of the wrong, hickish reasons! Read More
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BP - 11 Lessons

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Weeks later, there are three givens: 1) much damage is being done to the wildlife and ecosystem, 2) no one is quite sure when, or how, this tragedy will end, and 3) everything BP is trying to do from a public relations and communications angle just isnapos;t working. Read More
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Resolving the Gaza Crisis

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — The resolution of the Gaza crisis involves an acceptance of responsibility by the international community and its active participation in determining the future of the people of Gaza and the warring parties through its agreement to establish an international peacekeeping force with the teeth to do the job that is necessary. Read More
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Could Methane Explode in the Gulf ?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Could this History Channel video even convince Rob Kall of the danger of a huge methane explosion in the Gulf of Mexico? Read More
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Look what theyapos;ve done to my ocean

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — After weeks of seeing photos of the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico,watching YouTube videos of pelicans suffocating in an oily sarcophagus, marshes saturated in putrid, brown slime and what appears to be oily rain and a surf belching noxious gases, Good God, who wouldnapos;t be depressed! Read More
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — International community lets Israel get away with crimes of war and against humanity Read More
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To the Class of 2010; BEFORE you make your First Mistakes

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Entrepreneurial lessons from CEO & Founder of 1 of the 20 largest Independent PR firms in the US Read More
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Extreme Measures: Arming the Zealotocracy, Serving the Elite

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — For the last 50 years, in country after country, ruling elites -- those factions which hold a disproportionate and thus illegitimate sway over society -- have fostered the growth of religious extremism for two main reasons: to distract the populace from the way their lives are unjustly diminished by the elitist agenda -- and to throttle and demonize any popular movement that might threaten the el Read More
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Home is where I want to be, but I guess Iapos;m already there

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — (from the article) "The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation of a distant memory, as if we were falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980 Read More
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Memo To Barack Obama

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Barack, Barack, Barack. Donapos;t just change generals, change course. Read More
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A New Tool for Risk Management in the Workplace: Verbal First Aid---

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — It has been repeatedly documented that the earlier the intervention, the more likely a positive outcome. When a person at work experiences a traumatic event, the quicker we address the fallout from that experience, the better that person will respond. What that means in business terms is a quicker return to work, less rancor, better productivity, and less litigation Read More
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Committing "Ecocide:" Tipping Point Between Evolution or Extinction?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Can a culture blindly commit ecocide, despite a tsunami of evidence? Read More
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Voting News: The Game of Electoral Fraud. Michigan ends voter purges. Riverside ballot limbo

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — The ACLU defends the Voting Rights Act in Alabama...Riverside Co CA delays certification of election results..Judge pleads not guilty of Monroe Co KY vote buying scheme...Michigan Agrees To Stop Unlawful Voter-Purge Programs...Mail ballot fraud charged in Passaic Co NJ...For Clean Campaigns: DISCLOSE and Amend...Kenya launches online registration program for inmates...Was Oprah online voting cont Read More
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United States Congress Must Act Re: BP Oil Spill

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Candid assessment of the Gulf Oil Spill and proposes a needed response by the US Congress. Lays bare the lapses in corporate responsibility and governmental oversight which ensured such a catastrophe would occur. Calls for a radical approach to corporate criminal behavior as a necessary deterrence to future conduct. Presents practical ways of funding the inevitable multi-decade cleanup in the wak Read More
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Photo-Essay: Haiti After the Earthquake, Part 8: a Weds Morning Sojourn thru Port-au-Prince

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Continuing with my series on Haiti, here is a closer look at the earthquake damage in Port-au-Prince and how the Haitian people carry on, despite it all. Read More
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Post-BP Gulf

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — What will happen if BP goes under? Questions about the future of America are posed. Read More
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Steve Wynnapos;s take on our Federal Government

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — A few comments, but mostly an intro to a Steve Wynn video I stumbled on earlier today. Read More
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When the Whistles Donapos;t Blow

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Harry Truman said, "Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend." Dick Cheney never heard that and neither did Anton Scalia. The justice can still be your friend and you can still go hunting together but only after you leave office. Read More
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Sirhan Sirhan: In His Own Words

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Sirhan is an innocent man, framed and used as a patsie. He is now 66, serving a life sentence in CA. This article includes an interview with Sirhan earlier this year by a prison teacher. Read More
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Blue Samurai Are For Real / Japan Destined For Final Four?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — As the World Cup competition heats up ~ one team is gaining momentum with its inspired disciplined play and exuberant execution. That team is Japanapos;s Blue Samurai who are destined for the final four and eventually the championship: Allen L Roland Read More
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The Right Kind of Election Reform

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — The election reform movement is still running down rat holes, pushing for the wrong kind of reform, afraid to ask for what we really need. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon to support all kinds of 100+ page complicated bills, letapos;s back up and ask for what we really need. Read More
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Quadruple Witching Hour - Chaos After the Market Crash?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — After the market crash Chaos will necessarily follow: social and political turmoil, military adventures, racism and xenophobia... All the evils the world has already experienced after Black Thursday in 1929. The Deep Depression is not a fatality. Act before September 9th. Read More
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This So-Called "Banking Reform" Bill

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Big banks won big in this... The bottom line seems that, much like the so-called health insurance reform, there are a few really good bones in here thrown to consumers but the power, wealth, and monopoly of the big banks that, as Senator Byron Dorgan said of the US Senate, "They own this place," continue to own the Senate as well as you and me. Read More
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Am I A Reality Show Reject?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — I auditioned for Oprah Winfreyapos;s new reality program, Your Own Show. Ten contestants will compete to host their own television show on Oprahapos;s new network, OWN. Read More
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We ARE the Small People

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — BPapos;s board chair Svanberg got me thinking when he called us Americans apos;the small people.apos; I realized thereapos;s more truth to his comment than first meets the eye. Read More
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55 mph = 15% less gas used = no offshore drilling needed

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — If we cut our national oil consumption by just 10%, we could eliminate the need for any offshore oil drilling in U.S. waters. How could we reach this goal? How about driving slower, even when the drive is really, really boring? Read More
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Nation Canapos;t Afford to Suffer a Revival of Reaganomics

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Ronald Reagan isnapos;t as great as Conservatives may say. Read More
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Busted: McChrystal Was a Big Show, Cover for War Vote

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — McChrystal was given the chance to voice objections to the controversial parts of the Rolling Stone article in which drunken aides were quoted, but he signed off anyway. Read More
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An open call to an on-line Constitutional Article V Convention has been sent to all citizens by Judge Thomas Brennan

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — A constitutional convention has been called by the people, and this article details how an Article V Constitutional Convention can stem the tide of the ever-decaying civil rights and citizenapos;s eroding freedoms, as well as other governmental and corporate and financial interestsapos; abuse. Read More
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Was Pat Tillman Murdered by an American Sharpshooter to Shut Him up?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Out of fear of losing stability in the country, poppy cultivation is supported by US and allied forces. In Nov. 2009, the Afghan Minister of Counter Narcotics stated that the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by US troops. He also said that NATO troops are taxing the production of opium in regions under their control and are earning money from it. What if Tillman had li Read More
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US Social Forum at the Cobo: A Peopleapos;s "Green Zone"

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — For days, thousands of progressive activists have entered and enjoyed the premise that is the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit. It has been an appropriate and malleable convergence space for all cultural, social, and political activity that thousands have engaged in. But, shortly, the reality will hit those who attended as they realize the Center is a proverbial "Green Zone." Read More
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"The Official 9/11 Story...Accept Without Question"

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Janes explores a number of facts related to the events surrounding September 11, 2001 that remain under-reported by the mass media. The artist hopes that these works will encourage individuals to ask questions and seek answers, especially about matters so strongly affecting freedoms. Also available through the artistapos;s website, are an audio version of the article and links for additional info Read More
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EPA will hold 4 meetings on hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking)...where will you be?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — * * Fracking, a method of extracting natural gas that pumps hundreds of chemicals into the ground, is destroying communities and lives all over the country. This is one chance we have to come together as people that must drink the water, breathe the air, and eat the produce of our nation to tell the EPA: NO FRACKINapos; WAY! Read More
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Jenna Blum, best-selling author of "The Stormchasers"

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Like many of my readers,I have loved people in my family who are bipolar, and I know firsthand what itapos;s like to watch somebody struggle with the severity of the disorderapos;s moods. I always knew I wanted to write about the disorder, those who have it and those who love them.What struck me when I was researching bipolar disorder was how often sufferers and professionals likened the disorder Read More
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Market Prices Define Democracy in Nepal

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — One wonders why the market prices rocket up by dullifying the minds of nationsapos; doctoral economists, dumbing their tongues and de-sensitizing senses. Read More
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Key Judge in Lousiana Fails to Recuse Himself--Should He be Impeached?

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — According to Democracy Now and other national media, the judge who stopped the Obamaapos;s Administrationapos;s 6-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico this week likely should have had to recuse himself before taking part in the case.Judge Feldman may have been correct in his decision, but he was not the judge who should have made such an injunction--his hands and bank account are bl Read More
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McCrystal Scandal Shows Us the Military No Longer Protects America -- It Guards Empire

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Increasingly, those most influential in making, supporting, or protesting defense policy have no direct experience with the military and no direct stake in getting it right. If they embroil us in some fiasco it is not their sons and daughters who will be shipped home in coffins. Read More
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Afghanistan, Americaapos;s Longest War, and the Perfect Arc of Failure

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Nothing has changed to improve our security in Afghanistan or Pakistan except that the area is even more volatile now. Nothing has changed except that a lot of contractors got rich, a lot of military higher ups got promoted, and a lot of politicians got to pretend they were Wyatt Earp. Read More
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Dodd Frank Financial Reform Legislation-- Watered Down, Diluted, Loaded with Loopholes-- The Obama/ Democratic Congress

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Weapos;ve been stabbed in the back again. . The "financial reform legislation" is another case of Dems and Obama selling out we-the-people in favor of big corporations and lobbyists. Time we take a stand Read More
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The Afghan War, Ninth Year: It Is Not Good

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Given the rich history of the United States in combat, beginning with the Revolutionary War and extending to the present, it should be a given that after 8 1/2 years of war in Afghanistan one should be able assume that there is some progress. Such is not the case. On the contrary our efforts have become counter-productive. Read More
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McChrystalapos;s Lament / The Wimps Strike Back

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — The true test of a personapos;s character is not how they handle adversity but how they handle power. General McChrystal has obviously failed that test but the White house wimps have little to celebrate inoccupied Afghanistan. McChrystal is a clear symbol of a corrupt and failed Obama/ Patraeus Empire protection policy. Read More
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Speaker Pelosi, War Funding Next Week is No "Emergency"

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — There is no "emergency" requiring the House to throw another $33 billion into our increasingly bloody and pointless occupation of Afghanistan before we all go off to celebrate the anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from foreign occupation. Read More
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Hands off Social Security - Better Ways to Cut the National Debt

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — The Social Security Trusteesapos; Annual Report on the programapos;s finances comes out Wednesday, delayed from March by the health bill. It will be turned into a marketing tool by advocates of cutting Social Security to reduce the national debt. Read More
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Kyrgyzstan: Picking up the pieces

Posted by expathos 73 days ago No Category Selected
http://www.opednews.com — Kill the victim and go to his funeral. Is NATO poised to move into the heart of Central Asia, even as its war in Afghanistan implodes? Read More
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