Why sail food from Maine to Boston, and what do salt and the British colonies in North America have in common with Gandhi’s India?
Rivera
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UPDATE August 25:
Patty Murray Yes takes potential No list down to 14.
UPDATE:
Stabenow Yes takes potential No list down to 14. But Blumenthal is still undecided, so it’s 15.
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This is an update to “Which U.S. Senators Want War on Iran.”
I’ve found there isn’t really any way to touch on this topic without misunderstanding, but here’s a try. Iran has never had a nuclear weapons program or threatened to launch a war against the U.S. or Israel. Many opponents
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If someone has had the good fortune not to encounter the world of U.S. police and prisons, and the misfortune to learn about the world from U.S. schools, entertainment, and “news” media, a great place to start understanding one of the worst self-inflicted tragedies of our era would be with James Kilgore’s short new book, Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, followed up by Radley Balko’s longer
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Senator Mark Warner’s staff says he’s holding only unannounced, closed-door meetings in Virginia this summer.
It’s a good thing he doesn’t have a job that requires knowing what the people of Virginia think about anything.
Virginians can click here to ask Warner by email to appear in public.
It’s hardly an unreasonable demand. While Congress is on summer break, most senators and representatives attend publicly announced public meetings at which they speak about their
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Cat J. Zavis is the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives ( http://spiritualprogressives.org
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Obamacare is the name given a law that says you must buy overpriced private health insurance from companies that fund election campaigns. Yes, it’s got some lipstick on it, but compared to a civilized healthcare system like other wealthy nations use it’s awful. But how awful? Surely not as awful as . . .
Obamatrade, which is the name not given to a potential treaty, a.k.a. the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which says that . . .
The House and Senate have rammed through Fast Track.
Here are the senators who voted for Fast Track: http://1.usa.gov/1GtAdTH
And the House members who voted for Fast Track: http://1.usa.gov/1GAl1TT
We always said this would virtually guarantee passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But it doesn’t absolutely guarantee it.
One way to stop it would be to pull out a seldom-used tactic in the United States that is indispensible in other nations. We could threaten consequences at the polling place
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