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Obama Appointments: This Day In Pointless Obstruction

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you thought that the filibuster was the only means by which senators could engage themselves in self-indulgent and pointless political warfare, thi...

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The Little Coup that Couldn't

Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Honduras, Human Rights, Latin America, Coup, State Department, Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Hillary Clinton, Tom Shannon, World News
Laura Carlsen

If the agreement brokered this week holds, Honduran society will have turned the ugly precedent of a modern-day military coup d'etat into an example of the strength of nonviolent grassroots resistance.

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