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by Christian Parenti:
Climage change is real, 2011 was a year of extreme weather events requiring major responses from government without which communities cannot recover. Anti-government zealotry is clearly wrong-headed.
1/26/2012
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by Adele M. Stan:
Gingrich won in South Carolina by playing the race card over and over. He is a dangerous, demogagic figure threatening to the future of justice in this country.
1/22/2012
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by Tanya Somanader:
On the Today Show Mitt Romney tells Matt Lauer that Obama is against 'one nation under God' by criticizing wealth distribution and predatory financial practices. See the video here.
1/12/2012
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by Chris Hedges:
A new book by James Cone, 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree,' points to the reality of faith in a way neither Barth nor Niebuhr could do. Black theology points the way forward for the Protestant church
1/9/2012
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by Corey Robin:
Conservative political philosophy assumes the few are superior to the many and justifies gross inequalities according to the auther of The Reactionary Mind.
1/5/2012
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by Harriet Fraad:
The emasculation of men is not caused by female equality but by an unjust economic system which hurts everybody, male and female, much misunderstood by the religious right.
12/29/2011
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by Olav Fykse Tveit:
A just peace is the theme of the message this year based on the work of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation.
12/22/2011
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by Robert B. Reich:
Here backlash politics, a big theme of this website, is clearly documented, with reference to Newt Gingrich.
12/22/2011
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by Max Blumenthal:
Evangelical leader James Dobson first hated Gingrich then offered him cheap forgiveness. Here is the paradigmatic backlash politician from the South, now a front runner Republican.
12/19/2011
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by Ed Knudson:
The social democratic tradition is important for public theology today. Religion in politics globally and in the United States continues to have influence. Michael Harrington had some advice on this.
12/17/2011
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by Diane Ravitch:
The fanatical beliefs about standardized testing, charter schools and so-called school choice are destroying our public schools and failing low-income and minority children. Here is what to do...
12/17/2011
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by Gar Alperovitz:
People sense there is something terribly wrong with things as they are. Decline and decadence are not inevitable. From Mondragon to Cleveland, worker cooperatives can be a community-building system.
12/17/2011
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by John Helmiere:
A Methodist minister is brutally beaten by Seattle Police as he demonstrated with Occupy the Ports on the west coast.
12/15/2011
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by Steve Benen:
Obama goes to Osawatomie, Kansas, to echo themes of Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism speech 101 years ago.
12/7/2011
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by Ed Knudson:
Action is needed inside the Catholic Church and ecumenical organizations against bishops now badgering President Obama about contraception services in health care.
12/5/2011
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by Chris Hedges:
Were you there, the author asks, when they crucified the movement, a call to Trinity Church in NYC to allow use of an empty lot for the movement.
12/5/2011
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by Bob Ivry:
Here are the details of the largest bank bailout in U.S. history, which could unite folks in the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
11/28/2011
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by Craig R. Loftin:
Here is an example of how to get involved with the Occupy Movement in your city, taking concrete steps to help others in the quest for justice in the world today.
11/27/2011
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by Brad Jacobson:
An interview with Harriet Washington about her new book on the shocking corporate takeover of basic elements of life itself and what can be done about it.
11/26/2011
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by Andy Kroll:
Changing the terms of public debate from austerity to inequality has already had many broad effects, including victory in Ohio for opposition to Governor John Kasich's anti-union bill.
11/21/2011
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by Mark Engler:
Anyone who thinks of themself as a capitalist should read this article. Some capitalists today actually agree more than they know with Marxist economists.
11/17/2011
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by Mark Engler:
More real pastors need to be at events of the Occupy movement, rather than just the theatrical Reverend Billy.
11/15/2011
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by Arthur Waskow:
The systematic idolatry of football at Penn State and beyond is the true culprit covering up the sin of child abuse by Jerry Sandusky.
11/14/2011
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by Karen L. Bloomquist:
Creative theological thinking needs to be encouraged and deepened in light of the urgent economic, political, cultural challenges today.
11/7/2011
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by Frances Fox Piven:
A well-known sociologist discusses the war against the poor exposed now by the Occupy Wall Street movement which focuses on social justice, inequality, as the central issue of our times.
11/7/2011
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by Chris Hedges:
The author is arrested outside the bank's headquarters where he conducted a People's Hearing with Cornel West.
11/4/2011
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