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Sealing in the Palestinians: The Story of the Most Controversial Border Wall in the World | World | AlterNet
Sealing in the Palestinians: The Story of the Most Controversial Border Wall in the World | World
An excerpt from Rene Backman's book, “A Wall in Palestine,” which lays bare an international human rights controversy.
March 13, 2010 |
The following is an excerpt from A Wall in Palestine by Rene Backmann (Picador, 2010).
Who invented the...
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Why Are We Afraid to Tax the Super-Rich? | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
Why Are We Afraid to Tax the Super-Rich? | Civil Liberties
We are told that we’re already living well beyond our means we’ve got to cut back on government programs at all levels. Meanwhile, the super-rich are still having a ball.
March 12, 2010 |
Our nation is already deeply in debt. How can we possibly...
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Coffee Party? Tea Party? Join the Brewvement!
Coffee Party? Tea Party? Join the Brewvement!
Tea Partiers, make room. The Coffee Party is about to steal some of your media thunder. Around for only a few weeks, it officially launches March 13th, having already attracted 109,000 Facebook fans, slightly more than the Tea Party, around about a year. The Coffee Party expects about...
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Bob Samuels: Why the Left Should Ignore the Right
Why the Left Should Ignore the Right
As Barack Obama continues to reach out to the Republican party only to be rejected time after time, it may be a good moment to reconsider the whole notion of bipartisanship. If Obama and other Democrats simply stuck to their guns and clearly articulated a progressive agenda, they...
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Best Practices in Teaching Land Use Law « LAW OF THE LAND
A new article just posted to SSRN examines Best Practices in the field of land use law. The article, “Practically Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Pedagogy and Best Practices” is forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Education. (One can downloand at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540713).
The authors (my colleague Dean Patricia Salkin from Albany Law School and...
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Book Burning 2009
Book Burning Great Success!
We wanted to say that the Book Burning was a great success. It was a success because God's Word was glorified and uplifted. God magnifies His Word above His name, and so do we. The video of the entire service will be up in a few days. We wanted to thank...
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Chat: Kanada vs USA – Slaggprodukter
As a Canadian, who works full time dealing with a major American insurance company, I'd take my wait to see a specialist any day over the circus American's call health care, because you're getting gouged on all ends. The insurance companies have all these foolish, and arbitrary, “pre-existing conditions,” and they're going to make...
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