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Science, Gays, Women, War And The Bible: President Jimmy Carter Answers The Hard Questions

Posted 03.19.2012

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Jimmy Carter served as the 39th president of the United States, founded the Carter Center and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. President Carter is a...

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Iran, the U.S. and Israel: Blind Man's Buff

Barry Lando | Posted 03.17.2012

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Barry Lando

Travelling back and forward between Tehran and the U.S. in 1980, I was struck by the total inability of Americans, even at the highest level, to understand the history that drove the hatred of all things American that had exploded in Iran.

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Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 03.06.2012

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Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

"I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land."

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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Passionately Calls On U.S. to Stop Bloodshed by Legalizing Drugs

Tony Newman | Posted 12.21.2011

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Tony Newman

President Fox is part of a growing choir of world leaders speaking out against the drug war.

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How The Seven Biggest Presidential Speeches On The Economy Failed

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 11.07.2011

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From 24/7 Wall St.: President Barack Obama will give a speech before a joint session of Congress this week, in which he will lay out a job creation pl...

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The Drug War: America's Costly Addiction

Michael Santos | Posted 08.22.2011

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Michael Santos

It surprises me that during these times of economic distress, taxpayers don't protest with the upside-down logic of spending more money to lock people in cages while spending less money to educate people.

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Plaintiffs Drop Suit Over Jimmy Carter Book

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 07.06.2011

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A $5 million lawsuit against Simon & Schuster over a book by former President Jimmy Carter was dropped by the plaintiffs on Thursday, three months aft...

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What Jimmy Carter Can't Change in Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 06.12.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

Carter recently met with Fidel Castro casually and at length in his living room. As before, Carter found points on which to praise the government, but it sounded more like diplomatic formalities than real points of consensus.

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My Meeting With Jimmy Carter in Havana

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.30.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

He was the first American president I shouted a slogan at. Three decades later, here I am in Havana, talking with him and other familiar faces from our nascent civil society.

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Why Historical Accounts Matter

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carol Hoenig

In November 1979, while Iranian students took hostages after occupying the American embassy in Tehran, I was raising my four-year-old son and trying t...

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A Formula for Failure

Michael Bendetson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Bendetson

The Great Recession has exposed a major flaw in the American economy beyond risky derivatives: an intellectual elite that now seeks success at the expense of our society -- instead of through it.

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Embargoed Jimmy Carter Book Appears Briefly On Google Books

Political Bookworm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jimmy Carter's "White House Diary," embargoed by its publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux until its release on Monday, had a brief ride on Google books...

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Archbishop Oscar Romero: Thirty Years and Little Learned

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Despite the actions of the mighty Texas Board of Education to erase his memory, Archbishop Romero will be long remembered as a friend of the oppressed and a champion of the poor.

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And Carter Thought He Faced National Malaise

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

The U.S. seems to have already begun its own "lost decade." Unlike Japan, the U.S. is expending its precious resources on fighting two debilitating wars and maintaining a declining empire. If we're lucky we will be "lost" only for a decade.

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Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter's Grandson, Vies To Return Family Name To Georgia Politics

AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — The eldest grandson of former President Jimmy Carter has won a suburban Atlanta state Senate seat in a special election Tuesday night....

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Kennedy May Have Called Coakley Outcome

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Smith

Scott Brown has the audacity to run for a seat held by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for 47 years and by a member of the Kennedy family for 53 years. He just might win.

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Jimmy Carter's Grandson Jason Says He Will Run For Georgia State Senate

AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 05.25.2011

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ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter's grandson is following the former president into politics with a run for the Georgia state Senate. Democrat Jason Carte...

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The Slandering of a Renown Jewish Jurist and War Crimes Prosecutor, Richard Goldstone

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ray Hanania

Renown South African Jurist Richard Goldstone has completed a comprehensive report on the war crimes committed during the Israeli war started against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 4, 2008.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Ellsberg

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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UPDATE: Coalfield Advocates Respond to Mountaintop Removal Crimes and Misdemeanors

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Biggers

Failed mining policy has destroyed our nation's natural heritage, ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin. And now Obama only wants to "regulate" it.

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Dear Mr. President: Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Biggers

Mountaintop removal is an immoral crime against nature and our citizenry, and it must be abolished, not regulated.

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