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	Editorials/Opinions/Blogs •If MLK Were Around ... He'd Be Talking About Poverty US liberals have lost their thunder Clinton's tough talk on Iran - a plan for war If MLK Were Around ... He'd Be Talking About Poverty America's socialism for the rich Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism? Do we really need to ban plastic bags? Climate change – start with the easy bits: war toys A green deal for Africa: Violence, disease and drought can be averted Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power Can vegetarians save the world? Bernie Madoff: a most-needed and convenient distraction. The Art of Political Distraction Global Warming: If we behave as if it's too late, then our prophecy is bound to come true Bank Bailout is Criminal - Investigation overdue The Real Scandal of AIG Time to change 'climate change' Fighting Back in America's 30-Year Class War Enough banker welfare. Hand out cash and make us spend it Wars, Endless Wars AIG Bailed Out Again, but Endless Fire-Drills Don't Put Out Fires The Ecstasy and the Agony Toilet Paper and Other Moral Choices A Pandemic of Economic Violence What Iran’s Jews Say The fight that is never done The Invisible War Bad News From America’s Top Spy Why the Muslim World Can’t Hear Obama Slumdogs Unite! Stopping Wall Street's Culture of Excess Why protesters are now stalkers IRAQ WAR – Bush's War Totals Bailouts for Bunglers Most Loathsome People of 2008 End of the age of excess The seeds of Latin America's rebirth were sown in Cuba Obama the imperialist American Torturers Home and Abroad A Revolution in Spirit – The economic crisis requires a radical response--not revved-up consumerism. No Time for Poetry A decisive loss for Israel An Atheist's View on the Inauguration Dr. King’s Last Birthday White Like Me •'War on terror' was a mistake, says Miliband •Eight Years of Madoffs •On Gaza: The time of the righteous •Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction •Body Count Nation •The Monstrosity of War •The Obama stimulus package– Robots, Not Roads •10 Reasons To Be Hopeful About 2009 -- and 3 Reasons To Be Terrified •Obama and American liberals inheriting Bush's blinkers •Iranians Ponder Their Future With an Obama Administration •UK: Energy firms' profits are unearned. It's a windfall. Now share it •Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade deals •The Housing Bubble Villains Deny Responsibility •In Europe, as in Asia, Nato leaves a trail of catastrophe •Dissent Is Essential to Democracy. So why are people being arrested for lawful protest? •Mr. Mukasey in Denial •When your skin is just too dark •Broken Justice in Indian Country •The lies of Hiroshima live on -- we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East •The stakes could not be higher. Everything hinges on stopping coal •Greed has brought us here, fairness must lead us out •Harvesting Money in a Hungry World •Can This Planet Be Saved? •The way to tackle fuel poverty •We lie and bluster about our nukes - and then wag our fingers at Iran •We have a drinking problem, and it makes oil seem cheap •Global warming is a brutal truth •This muddled terror law limits free speech and wrecks innocent lives •Madness and Shame •Failing Zimbabwe •Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column? •The Pain of the G-8’s Big Shrug •The G8 countries may run the old world economy. But it's the new one that matters •We must address poverty, wars – and female bishops •Man-Made Hunger •The Truth Commission •Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history •The U.S. Is Drowning in Pretend Patriotism •From triumph to torture •What is keeping oil prices so high? •When loyalty gets the better of morality •Power vs. poverty •The Poverty of Reaganism-Bushism •The Real Story Behind the Midwest Floods? Climate Change •Mr. Bush v. the Bill of Rights •After 75 Years, the Working Poor Still Struggle for a Fair Wage •The tragic legacy of a disastrous president •42 days? Try 18 months •The flailed, failed state •Politics and Hunger •Scrutiny is a vital lever of democracy •The Truth About the War •What Obama Overcame •We must talk to the enemy •The Science of Denial •Cowardice of silence •The Worst Way of Farming •What George Forgot •The world must end its addiction to oil •The empire’s hypocritical politics. Questions for Obama More Personalities An Empire for Poor Working Women, Guided by a Gandhian Approach John Updike’s Mighty Pen •Randy Pausch, 47, Dies; His ‘Last Lecture’ Inspired Many to Live With Wonder •Jesse Helms, American Bigot •Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies •Remembering Aimé Césaire •Edward N. Lorenz, a Meteorologist and a Father of Chaos Theory •Like servants below stairs, we all have tales of Naipaul's rudeness •The dying man who taught America how to live •Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 •Pride and prejudice - V S Naipaul •Anything for an unquiet life •The prisoner of Dhaka •David Attenborough - A natural phenomenon •Castro: his last battle •Baba Amte, 93, Dies; Advocate for Lepers •Maharishi Mahesh Yogi •A Statesman Without Borders •Doctor Brilliant •Norman Mailer Dies at 84		Education The secret life of numbers. How do you spark off an interest in maths How the web is undermining reading ?Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude •Louisiana’s Latest Assault on Darwin •A revolution in teaching promises the solution to dyslexia Books. Plays. Movies Charles Darwin, Abolitionist For India's real slumdogs, dream of a better life is not just something in the movies •Sanitation: Creating a stink about the world's wastewater •This much I know: Deepak Chopra •India's writers tell Aids stories •Meet the rich - The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever •Irshad Manji: A fierce critic of her religion •Madness and Shame •E. Coli and You •Falling out with the President: the devious world of George Bush •Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It •Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck' •Into the heart of his darkness •In Search of a Lost Africa •Like servants below stairs, we all have tales of Naipaul's rudeness •The End of Empire? •Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? •The Naked Man: 'We'd be better off if women ran everything' •Who really freed America's slaves? •The Indian Clerk •The Shock Doctrine •The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy •The Terror Presidency: Conscience of a Conservative Food for Thought Easter: Celebrating the Hope of Salvation? The rise and rise of atheism Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power 3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly People America's socialism for the rich Reimagining Socialism Do we really need to ban plastic bags? The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism Global Warming: If we behave as if it's too late, then our prophecy is bound to come true How to understand people Toilet Paper and Other Moral Choices A Pandemic of Economic Violence Science is just one gene away from defeating religion Defying Darwin Why Do People Believe in God? Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy Behold! The Jewish Jesus Why Belief Isn't That Different for Atheists or Religious People Why Atheism May Be the Best Way to Understand God We're Witnessing the Return of Religion as a Principle Cause of Warfare •Is religion a threat to rationality and science? •Master of his universe: an interview with Stephen Hawking •On the Origin of Species •It is possible to be moral without God ' I became a Zen Buddhist nun' •How one day we may all be eternally young •Assisted Suicide of Healthy 79-Year-Old Renews German Debate on Right to Die •Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis? •Culture conundrum •Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear •Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats •Punctuation: does it matter? •In search of the perfect battery •Anger and understanding •The future of the world, in 23 pages •Mind your manners •Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate •Sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit: the men who lived to tell the tale •From Popper to Rove - and back •In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice •We can best stop terror by civil, not military, means •The Perils of Petrocracy •Mumia Abu-Jamal: Life on death row •What is transcendental meditation, and is it the cure for society's ills? •The good life of the Auschwitz guards •How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves •Stuff and nonsense •India's secret history: 'A holocaust, one where millions disappeared...' •Sixty bitter years after Partition • The Rise of Disaster Capitalism • Forgotten man lay dead in flat for six years • No home fit for heroes • The myth of dying • Home truths • The greatest tragedy of our time • An Old Dogma's New Twist • Beggar, Serf, Soldier, Child • She didn't deserve this • The Arrogance Of Power • Roots of a conflict in Sudan • Streets of despair • The Genesis Project • Nigerian reconciliation • Convention of Hate • How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power • The Bushes and the Saudi Royal Family • The Unknown Genocide • Struggling To Love Children of Hate • When Prosecutors Err, Others Pay the Price • Looking back at Rwanda genocide • Rwanda 10 years later • Rememdering Rwanda Genocide • When good men do nothing • The damage done • Beware instant democracy • Starved of the truth • Blair's 'international community' doctrine • Witness to the Betrayal • Free Market: Our most dangerous export • Feel guilt. Then move on • Bush 'betrayed us' , says Gore • They Rape Babies also

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