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Noam Chomsky | A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (but Won't)

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com: "The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its basic contours: a two-state settlement along the internationally recognized (pre-June 1967) borders - with 'minor and mutual modifications,' to adopt official US terminology before Washington departed from the international community in the mid-1970's."
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Marjorie Cohn | Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling

Marjorie Cohn, Jurist: "The conservative 'states' rights' mantra sweeping our country has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have 'reasonable suspicion' to believe is an undocumented immigrant and arrest them if they fail to produce their papers. What constitutes "reasonable suspicion"? When asked what an undocumented person looks like, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who signed SB 1070 into law last week, said, 'I don't know what an undocumented person looks like.'"
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Rage and Rebellion: How Will the Left Respond?

Bernard Weiner, Truthout: "Like a lot of progressives, I've been puzzling over the Tea Party phenomenon. Many on the left choose to believe that the hundreds and sometimes thousands who attend the group's rallies are the same old extreme rightwingers who always have been around - usually content to remain isolated individuals or small groups in the shadows but this time encouraged out in the open by incitement from the Far Right media."
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Alexander Cockburn | The Cover-Ups That Exploded Alexander Cockburn, Truthout:

"The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism show trigger-happy U.S. Army helicopter pilots and U.S. Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes....The World Wide Web was transfixed Monday when Wikileaks put up on YouTube a 38-minute video, along with a 17-minute edited version, taken from a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, one of two firing on a group of Iraqis in Baghdad at a street corner in July 2007. Twelve civilians died, including a Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and a Reuters driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40." (Read the Article)

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Marijuana Legalization: The Pay-Any-Price Principle David Sirota, Truthout: "When choosing between frugality and security, history shows that America almost always selects the latter. To paraphrase President Kennedy, we'll pay any price and bear any burden to protect ourselves....No doubt this was why the economic case against the Iraq invasion failed. To many, the war debate seemed to pose a binary question: debt or mushroom clouds? And when itís a scuffle between money arguments and security arguments (even dishonest security arguments), security wins every time."

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