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Would You Want To Live To Be 100?

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Town Halls, The Balanced Life, Living News, Longevity, Senior Citizens, The Healthy Life, Women's Health, Featured Contributor, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Dr. Judith Rich, Huffington Post, Town Hall Meetings, Health, United States, Cardiovascular Disease, Barack Obama, University of Pittsburgh, High School, Bachelor's Degree, Us, Living News
Dr. Judith Rich

Can you imagine yourself as a really, really old person? I'm talking really old, like 100 years or beyond? In fact it's not only possible you could ...

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Woodstock: The Minister, God and Me

Janice Taylor | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Split-Level Home, Home and Garden, Woodstock, United States, Living Room, 1960s, 1969, Living News
Janice Taylor

A young hippie-dippy minister, God bless him, and his wife move to town in the same time-vortex as we do. And he is Hell-bent on getting to Woodstock.

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Russia Huffs and Puffs as the House Comes Down

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Robert Amsterdam, Kremlin, United States, Joe Biden, Cold War, Ukraine, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Yukos, Natalia Estemirova, Viktor Yuschenko, Chechnya, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Farc, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.

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Financial Reforms: Is Europe Hypocritical?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Regulatory Institutions, London, G20 Summit, Regulatory System, European Parliament, G20 CommuniquéS, Hedge Funds, Ratings Agencies, Stimulus Package, President Sarkozy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Wall Street, Tax Havens, Short Sales, " Council of Ministers, European Central Bank, Stress Tests, TARP Money, European Union, United States, Credit Cards, Oecd, France, Transparency, European Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Regulations on Compensation, Regulatory Reform, Sec, “Locusts”, President George W. Bush, Business News
Georges Ugeux

European bank losses were as high as the U.S. They used the same compensation system, and their fragmented and ineffective regulatory system shares responsibility for the crisis.

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Welcome to the Reality Recovery

James Boyce | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business

Read More: United States, Economy, Business News
James Boyce

Last fall, I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post called "The Darwin Depression" which focused on how the end of cheap capital was going to force man...

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US, UK on Collision Course Over Detainee Court Cases

Frank Naif | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Cia, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, United Kingdom, David Milliband, CIA Torture, Hillary Clinton, United States, Binyam Mohamed, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Frank Naif

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is pressing the UK to protect US detention and torture secrets, but British courts may have the last word as two major torture cases move ahead.

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John Bolton's Nuclear Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Daily Show, Bush Doctrine, Nuclear Weapons, John Bolton, George W. Bush, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, United States, John Stewart, North Korea, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

John Bolton told Jon Stewart he wanted America to be the only nation with nuclear weapons. Stewart is the comedian, but this policy is the joke.

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China and the United States -- a Marriage of Convenience

Zachary Karabell | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Currency, U.S. Dollar, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Strategic and Economic Dialogue, United States, U.S. Debt to China, China, World News
Zachary Karabell

For a 21st century relationship, this looks increasingly like a 19th century marriage, one of convenience and necessity rather than love and affection.

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Global Warming Trash Talk or Cherry-Pickin' Time

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Cooling, National Review, United States, Temperatures, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News
Bill Chameides

Apparently the National Review, none too pleased about climate legislation rattling around Congress, has joined the "global cooling brigade."

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Iranian Exiles In Iraq Camp Raided By Army

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Iran, Iranian Exiles in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, Iranian Exiles, People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, United States, US Iraq Troop Levels, Us Iraq Withdrawal, US Iraq Security Agreement, World News

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces raided a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group north of Baghdad on Tuesday in a move that ran contrary to U...

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Are Russia's Arms Deals to Venezuela Destablizing Central America?

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Joseph Biden, Robert Amsterdam, Igor Sechin, Kremlin, Arms, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, United States, Washington, Oil, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Moscow, Caracas, Security, World News
Robert Amsterdam

The grotesque level of corruption in both Russia and Venezuela should stimulate the discussion as to whether their predatory natures constitute not only an international crime, but also a breach of fundamental human rights.

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Bryant Neal Vinas: American Offered To Be Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber: Document

cnn.com | Posted 08.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Al Qaeda Suicide Bomber, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, United States, Bryant Neal Vinas, Suicide Bomber, Terror Suspects, War on Terror, New York News

A New York man who pleaded guilty in January to charges of aiding al Qaeda was ready to be a suicide bomber for the organization, but was told he nee...

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How to Win a Culture War

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion Reduction, Culture War, Children, Affordable Health Care, Common Ground, Wedge Issue, United States, Health, Legislation, America, Choice, Culture, Parent, Quality Affordable Health Care, Abortion, Culture Warrior, Women, Conflict, Pregnant Women, Unintended Pregnancies, Policy Debate, Health Care Reform, Rosa DeLauro, Tim Ryan, Health Care, Private Insurance, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one.

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What is an American?

Akbar Ahmed | Posted 08.20.2009 | Style

Read More: Television, United States, Culture, Barack Obama, 40th Anniversary Moon Landing, Politics, Style News
Akbar Ahmed

While grappling for ideas for a book on American identity I've been trying to figure out what actually defines an American.

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Bill Maher: US Is Just Like Michael Jackson--"Fragile, Over-Indulgent, In Debt, Over The Hill" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home

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On "Real Time" Friday Bill Maher went on a diatribe about how the reason America mourned Michael Jackson so intensely--or as Maher put, lost its "coll...

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Clinton Defends US Demands For Anti-Terror Help

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 08.18.2009 | World

Read More: Hillary Clinton India, India, United States, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Anti-Terrorism, World News

MUMBAI, India — Off the injured list and back on the world stage, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday gave an impassioned...

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After Obama Visit, Russia Resets to Default

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Natalia Estemirova, Freedom of the Press, Human Rights, Crime, Robert Amsterdam, Violence, Russia, Vladimir Putin, United States, Justice, Europe, Barack Obama, Journalism, Dmitry Medvedev, Anna Politkovskaya, Rule of Law, Paul Klebnikov, World News
Robert Amsterdam

What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?

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The Heart of the Future

Robert Koehler | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nationalism, Russia, Nuclear-Disarmament, Start Treaty, United States, Human Evolution, Predatory Beasts, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Koehler

If we envision a nuclear-free world, the agreement reached by Medvedev and Obama to reduce their nations' nuclear arsenals to 1,500 warheads can easily seem minimalist in the extreme.

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Planet Earth: Difficult Times, Insatiable Appetites ... Doomed?

Janice Taylor | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Earth, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, Wendell Berry, Janice Taylor, Middle East, David Kessler, Omega-Institute, An End to Overeating, United States, Colorado River, Sustainability, Bottled Water, Elizabeth Lesser, Our Lady of Weight Loss, Green News
Janice Taylor

We human beings are pretty crude creatures. We want more, more, more. We have insatiable appetites. We do everything in excess, in both our personal and collective lives.

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China Mounts Defense of Myanmar after Junta Pledges to Free Some Political Prisoners

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Uk, France, China Uighur Protests, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Southeast Asia, United States, UN Security Council, China, Myanmar, Britain, World News
Evelyn Leopold

China's deputy U.N. ambassador has made clear that Beijing, a major trading partner of Burma, would not use its influence to bring about any major change in the isolated southeast Asian nation.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Downing Street Memo, For Laughs: Armando Iannucci on In the Loop

Dan Persons | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Armando Iannucci, Iraq War Films, Steve Coogan, Bbc, Films, United Nations, Anna Chlumsky, Washington DC, Anti-War Films, United States, New York, Movies, Iraq War, The Thick of It, Television Adaptation, Great Britain, Satire, James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi, Iraq, Comedy, Mimi Kennedy, The Downing Street Memo, Exclusive, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In a new political comedy based on an award-winning BBC sitcom, Gandolfini plays a Pentagon General whose instincts for survival are maybe too finely honed. It's political vitriol in the grand, British tradition.

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The Changing Climate of Diplomacy

Banning Garrett | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: United States, Climate Change, Us-China Relations, Global Warming, China, Green News
Banning Garrett

In Denmark, there will be only one meaningful question asked: will the US and China come together to make meaningful concessions to reduce their environmental footprints?

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Well, You Wanted Bipartisanship: House Awakens, Votes 429-2 For Oval Office Accountability

Rob Warmowski | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, White House, United States, Signing Statements, Oval Office, Barack Obama, Politics News
Rob Warmowski

Why now? Why did the House allow hundreds of dubious, abusive Bush signing statements in eight years without such an amendment, but can find its courage and love of accountability today?

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Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nobel Prize, Richard Garwin, Nuclear Weapons, Charles Krauthammer, Missile Defense, George W. Bush, Union-of-Concerned-Scientists, Ted Postol, Start Treaty, Neoconservatives, Science, United States, Washington Post, Arms Control, Barack Obama, World News
Joe Cirincione

Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.

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Russia's Rule of Law an Issue of Security

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Silvio Berlusconi, Robert Amsterdam, G8, Vladimir Putin, Italy, Iran, United States, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, China, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, World News
Robert Amsterdam

Washington showed up, laid its cards on the table, and treated Russia very seriously. Now the ball is in Kremlin's court to do the same.

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