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How to stage effective protests in the 21st century

Discussions how to reform America frequently end on one set of rocks:  the ineffectiveness of mass protests in 21st century America.  In this post Joshua Keating explains the problem (“Do protests ever work?“, blog of Foreign Policy, 2 April 2009 ): Collins names Gandhi’s march to the sea and Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington …

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Forecasts for the American Expedition to Iraq

What comes next in Iraq? Here are some straight-line extrapolations. Nothing certain, but these seem like good bets. 1.  American public support for the Iraq War has evolved to the tipping point — the critical level at which mainstream politicos move to explicit opposition. In this sense Iraq is a second Vietnam: a foreign war …

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