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What Will Obama Do About Cannabis?

Mick Meaney December 29, 2008 7

By NORM KENT He picked for Vice President one of the major architects of the Drug War. He picked for Chief of Staff one of the chief opponents of medical marijuana. He is talking

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Chávez: Capitalists Have Manipulated the Message of Christ to Exploit the Poor

Mick Meaney December 29, 2008 3

By Venezolana de Televisión “The Kingdom of Heaven is not a kingdom or life in the clouds. Either it exists here or else it exists nowhere,” President Chávez issued a wake-up call during the

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Over 300 Killed in Gaza as Attacks Continue

Mick Meaney December 29, 2008 0

The first day of what Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak assures us will be a “long and difficult” war in the Gaza Strip has come and gone, leaving at least 300 Gazans dead, over

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Cheney Admits He ‘Signed Off’ on Waterboarding of Three Guantanamo Prisoners

Mick Meaney December 29, 2008 6

Author’s note: Cheney’s admission during an interview with the Washington Times this week about his role in approving the waterboarding of three Guantanamo detainees and the so-called “enhanced interrogation” of 33 prisoners was, disturbingly,

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