The GOP War Mongers bring an Israeli War Monger to address Congress as a political stunt to sabotage any potential Peace.....a greater understanding of Middle East history would go a long way for the Tea Bagger Gaggles.
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After Netanyahu Speech, Congress Is Officially High School
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "The applause from members of the House and Senate was so over the top, it recalled the famous passage in the Gulag Archipelago about the apparatchik approach to a Stalin speech: 'Never be the first one to stop clapping.'"
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "The applause from members of the House and Senate was so over the top, it recalled the famous passage in the Gulag Archipelago about the apparatchik approach to a Stalin speech: 'Never be the first one to stop clapping.'"
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The 21st
Century Has Been Terrible for Working Americans
Jim Tankersley, The Washington Post
Tankersley writes: "Of all the scary stats you've heard about the U.S. economy over the last few years, this might be the scariest: Almost two-thirds of American households earn less money today than they did in 2002."
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Jim Tankersley, The Washington Post
Tankersley writes: "Of all the scary stats you've heard about the U.S. economy over the last few years, this might be the scariest: Almost two-thirds of American households earn less money today than they did in 2002."
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The Civilian
Carnage From Operation 'Noble Justice'
Andrew Cockburn, CounterPunch
Cockburn writes: "The first missile from the lead helicopter scored a direct hit on the pickup, instantly killing eleven passengers."
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Andrew Cockburn, CounterPunch
Cockburn writes: "The first missile from the lead helicopter scored a direct hit on the pickup, instantly killing eleven passengers."
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Strategy Shift
for Wisconsin Unions After Right-to-Work Vote
Dana Ferguson, Associated Press
Ferguson writes: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a likely presidential candidate who built his reputation on limiting the power of public-sector unions four years ago, plans to quickly sign a right-to-work bill after the Assembly passed it Friday at the end of an all-night session."
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Dana Ferguson, Associated Press
Ferguson writes: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a likely presidential candidate who built his reputation on limiting the power of public-sector unions four years ago, plans to quickly sign a right-to-work bill after the Assembly passed it Friday at the end of an all-night session."
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US Strategy in
Iraq Increasingly Relies on Iran
Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Cooper writes: "Obama is becoming increasingly dependent on Iranian fighters as he tries to contain the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria without committing American ground troops."
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Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Cooper writes: "Obama is becoming increasingly dependent on Iranian fighters as he tries to contain the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria without committing American ground troops."
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What Iran Is
Really Like - Without the Demonization
Matthew Stevenson, CounterPunch
Stevenson writes: "Less than two weeks in Iran does not make me an Iranian expert or even a seasoned Persian diplomatic hand, but it is more time than nearly all the members of Congress have spent collectively in the country that they chose to revile in celebrating, repeatedly, the speech that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered before the joint session on Capitol Hill."
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Matthew Stevenson, CounterPunch
Stevenson writes: "Less than two weeks in Iran does not make me an Iranian expert or even a seasoned Persian diplomatic hand, but it is more time than nearly all the members of Congress have spent collectively in the country that they chose to revile in celebrating, repeatedly, the speech that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered before the joint session on Capitol Hill."
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Amazon
Deforestation Causing Species Extinction to Accelerate
University of Cambridge
Excerpt: "One of the largest area studies of forest loss impacting biodiversity shows that a third of the Amazon is headed toward or has just past a threshold of forest cover below which species loss is faster and more damaging."
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University of Cambridge
Excerpt: "One of the largest area studies of forest loss impacting biodiversity shows that a third of the Amazon is headed toward or has just past a threshold of forest cover below which species loss is faster and more damaging."
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