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Rand Paul No Progressive Hero, Despite Anti-Drone Filibuster

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

The Kentucky senator's brand of 'courage' springs from the same poisoned well as that of segregationist Gov. George Wallace.

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The Worst Mistake in U.S. History -- America Will Never Recover from Bush's Great Foreign Policy Disaster

By Peter Van Buren / Tom Dispatch

Missing Piece of Gun Control Debate: America's Monster Role in International Arms Trade

By Eric Wuestewald / AlterNet

Meet the Tar Sands Pollution Refugees

By Andrew Nikiforuk / The Tyee

Hugo Chavez, R.I.P. - Leader Broke Venezuela Out of America's Imperial Orbit, Threw Neoliberal 'Economics' in the Trash

By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now!

Is Nestle Involved in Murder Of Colombian Union Leader?

Large Corporations Seek U.S.–European 'Free Trade Agreement' to Further Global Dominance

Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror

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Don't Believe Media Lies About Hugo Chavez: Venezuelan Leader Was Beloved At Home For Reducing Extreme Poverty

Belén Fernández / Al Jazeera English

Banker Central to Creation of Modern Capitalism Revealed to be Soviet Spy

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Switzerland Clamps Down Hard on Obscene CEO Pay

Pat Garafolo / Think Progress

How Authoritarianism Created the Crisis Engulfing the Roman Catholic Church

Rev. Paul Surlis / Consortium News

Remote-Control War on Mali and Afghanistan Risks Major Blowback On Western Powers

Paul Rogers / OpenDemocracy

Congress Trashes Diplomacy: U.S. Urged to Back Possible Israeli Strike Ahead of Talks With Iran

Jasmin Ramsey / Inter Press Service

And the Winner is...Nobody: Italian Government Deadlocked After Election

Carlo Ungaro / OpenDemocracy

South African Police Drag Man to Death

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Sleazy Military Contractors Are Crying Foul Over Drones -- They Stand to Lose Billions

Gary Brecher / Not Safe for Work Corporation

Anthropologists Researching to "Inform U.S. Military Personnel"?

Serena Golden / Inside Higher Ed

'Argo' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' Showcase the Banal Militarism of Hollywood

Fouad Pervez / Foreign Policy in Focus

'Signature Strikes' On Unidentified People: The Drone War Doctrine We Still Know Nothing About

Cora Currier, Justin Elliott / ProPublica

Scandal Spectacle: The 10 Most Corrupt and Compromised Cardinals Voting For the New Pope

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Stephen Colbert on How to Avoid Being Decimated by a Drone

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AlterNet Comics: Matt Bors on Drone Medals

Matt Bors / AlterNet

Berlusconi Is a Sleazebucket, But Maybe You Should Be Glad He’s Back

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

U.S.-Backed Forces Tortured, Abducted and Killed Civilians, Claims Afghan Gov't

Alex Kane / AlterNet

God’s Racket: Why It’s High Time to Shut Down the Vatican Bank

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Revealed: Documents Show How Obama Administration Turned Its Back On American Citizen 'Executed' By Israel

Alex Kane / Mondoweiss

How Israel Gets Away With Torturing Palestinians to Death

Charlotte Silver / Al Jazeera

What if Iranians Waterboarded Americans?

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com

The Al Qaeda Most Americans Know Is Basically a Myth at This Point

Gary Brecher / Not Safe for Work Corporation

Top U.S. Terrorist Group: the FBI

David Swanson / davidswanson.org

Locked in Israeli Jail for Being a Human Rights Defender

Jamal Juma / AlterNet

5 Things Happening in Africa That Aren’t Oscar Pistorius

Hayes Brown / Think Progress

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