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Marijuana Prohibition Is Hanging on by Its Final Thread -- There's a Bright Future on the Horizon

By Doug Fine / AlterNet

America will benefit to the tune of billions every year when we end one of our worst domestic policies since ... the prohibition of alcohol.

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Vietnam, Afghanistan: War, Karma, and Peace

By Andrew Lam / New America Media

Big Oil vs. Native Community: Canada's First Nations Challenges Shell's Plan to Mine Tar Sands

By Kristin Moe / YES! Magazine

Globalization Is The Number One Health Risk Facing Humanity

By Thom Hartmann / Op-Ed News

Polls Show Obama Would Cream Romney in Every Country in the World--Except Drone-Bombarded Pakistan and Israel

By Alex Kane / AlterNet

It's Time to Challenge the Propaganda Regarding Who is Killed by U. S. Drones

Former UK Defense Minister Suggests Dropping Thermonuclear Bombs on Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

'Life or Death' Moment for the Revolution: Egyptians Erupt in Fury Against Brazen Power Grab

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"Geoengineers" Think They Can Save the Planet with High-Risk Projects to Manipulate the Climate

Naomi Klein / NaomiKlein.org

Where Did Paul Ryan Find Inspiration for 'Reforming' Social Security? A Brutal Military Dictatorship, Naturally

Bruce Wilson / AlterNet

Armed Rebels and Middle-Eastern Power Plays: How the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria

Nicolas J.S. Davies / AlterNet

Number of States in Which Rapists Can Sue For Custody and Visitation Rights -- 31 -- and Other Shocking Rape Facts

Soraya Chemaly / Huffington Post

Do Romney and Obama live in “Homeland”?

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon.com

Time Magazine's Joe Klein Makes a Sociopathic Defense for Killing Children with Drones

Glenn Greenwald / The Guardian

Chomsky: America Acts Like It Owns the World, While Endangering the Planet from Nuclear War and Climate Change

Noam Chomsky / Democracy Now

Romney, with Cheney, Rove, All Admit Defeat in Iraq

Wayne Barrett / AlterNet

10 Big Surprises in Store For Tea Partiers Fleeing to Canada if Obama Wins

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The U.S. Elite's Favorite Television Show: Showtime's 'Homeland' Demonizes Arabs and Prepares Americans For Bombing Iran

Joseph Massad / Al Jazeera English

The Changing Face of American Empire

Nick Turse / TomDispatch.org

Bush All Over Again: Mitt Romney Is Trojan Horse for the Neocons

Robert Parry / Consortium News

A 'Kill List' on Steroids: Obama Administration Expands Drone Assassinations to Wage 'Permanent War'

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Pakistani Assemblywoman: Girls’ Education Key to Ending Terrorism

Viji Sundaram / New America Media

How an Innocent 26-Year-Old Got Sold Into Guantanamo Hell for a $5,000 Bounty

Jason Leopold / TruthOut.org

Scapegoating and Chest-Thumping on China: Cheap Political Rhetoric Paves the Way Towards Tense Future for Sino-American Relations

Hilary Matfess / Foreign Policy in Focus

What Obama and Romney Didn't Say At the Debate: 9 Things You Should Know About Iran's Nuclear Program

Nima Shirazi / Wide Asleep in America

Final Debate: Obama Scores a Win

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

The Alliance from Hell: How the U.S. and Pakistan Became a Dysfunctional Nuclear Family

Dilip Hiro / Tom Dispatch

The Kleptocrat's Webmaster: U.S. PR Firm Puts Pretty Face on a Reportedly Corrupt Ministry in Equatorial Guinea

Eli Clifton / The American Independent

How Romney's Business-Pandering Foreign Policy Could Spell Disaster in Libya and the World

Bradley J. Austin / AlterNet

5 Ways Romney and Obama Will Shamelessly Pander to Israel Tonight

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?

Karen J. Greenberg / TomDispatch

Inside Bain's Chinese Sensata Factories, Where Workers Put in 12-Hour Days for $.99-$1.35 an Hour

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Israeli Government Consciously Planned to Keep Palestinians "on a Diet", Controlling Their Food Supply, Damning Document Reveals

Juan Cole / Informed Comment

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