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Monday May 31, 2010

Marjorie Cohn: Israel Murders Human Rights Workers Delivering Humanitarian Aid
James Carroll: Memorial Day: Remembering is Not Enough
Michelle Chen: Living Wage Fight Revitalized in New York City
Fran Quigley: Too Sheltered From the Effects of War
Paul Jay: Israeli Attack on Gaza Aid Ship Violates International Law
Donna Smith: Remembering Memorial Day

Sunday May 30, 2010

Marjorie Cohn: Rwandan Arrest of U.S. Lawyer Motivated by Politics
GRAIN: GM in the Public Eye in Asia
Juan Cole: 'This Scares Everybody' Says BP: Top Kill Fails, Imperils Gulf; 'There Are No Solar Spills'
Ian R MacDonald: BP's Behavior in the Gulf Is Appalling. But Our Thirst for Oil Is the Real Issue
Aisha Ghani: The Grim Future of Bagram Litigation
David Michael Green: I Can’t Wait for Barack Obama to Become President
Ann Wright: Life Aboard an International Activist Ship

Saturday May 29, 2010

Ralph Nader: Time for OTA
Dilip Hiro: The American Century Is So Over: Obama’s Rudderless Foreign Policy Underscores America’s Waning Power
David Sirota: Gulf Spill Bailout in the Works
Amy Hagopian, Eric B. Williams and Emily DeRiel: Stemming the Brain Drain of Health-Care Workers From Developing Countries
Heller Levinson: 'Killing' Ourselves to Death
Bruce Luske: 'Business Good. Government Bad.'
Tom Turnipseed: Immigrants R Us

Friday May 28, 2010

John Vidal: The Real Cost of Cheap Oil
Simon Johnson: Is The SEC Still Working For Wall Street?
John Atlas: Fake ACORN Pimp Pleads Guilty; the New Yorker Adds its Voice to the Anti-ACORN Story
James Marc Leas: Free Gaza Flotilla Subject to Coordinated Israeli Government Media Campaign and Military Action
Linn Washington, Jr: For Texas Ed Board: Ignorance is Bliss
Danny Schechter: Is The President The Kind of Leader Chairman Mao Warned Us About?
Medea Benjamin: Getting Naked to Expose BP
Ray McGovern: Memo to Congressman David Obey
Ira Chernus: Gaza Flotilla: This is What Smart Strategy Looks Like
George Lakoff: Obama’s Missing Moral Narrative

Thursday May 27, 2010

Kirsti Sorsa: Tap Water Tops Bottled on Quality and Cost
Enzo Pastore: The Health Care Reform Action Moves to the States
Laura Flanders: Sacrificing Women to the Budget Gods
Linh Dinh: Quantifying Culture
John Atcheson: Trusting the Scorpion: BP, the Legacy of Republican Hypocrisy and Democratic Cowardice
Sahil Kapur: Troops at the Border Won't Bring Reform
Ben Bowling: Jamaica Bleeds for Our 'War on Drugs'
Ann Wright: The Audacity of the Free Gaza Flotilla
Robert C. Koehler: Stopping Orwell's Nightmare
Robert Weissman: BP CEO Supports a Boycott?

Wednesday May 26, 2010

Sarah Anderson: Reining in Wall Street: Round 1
Andy Worthington: More “Congressional Depravity” on Guantánamo
Ruth Conniff: EPA Should Ban BP
Zach Carter: Want Economic Justice? Then it’s Time to Act.
Richard Greenwald: When Did Teachers Become the Enemy?
Mark Weisbrot: Eurozone Crisis is Self-Inflicted
Naomi Starkman: Beeline to Extinction
Amy Goodman: Alleged Chicago Torturer’s Overdue Day in Court
Robert Scheer: Blame Clinton, Not Paul
Dave Lindorff: BP and the Audacity of Corporate Greed
Jim Hightower: Disclosing the Meekness of the "DISCLOSE" Bill
Raed Jarrar: Don’t Reward Violence in Iraq by Extending US Troop Withdrawal Deadline
Harvey Wasserman: Will an "Emergency" Military Vote Tomorrow Fund More Nukes?
Subhankar Banerjee: Oil Follies in the Arctic

Tuesday May 25, 2010

Nancy Keenan: One Year Later: Honoring Dr. George Tiller
Robert Reich: Obama’s Regulatory Brain
Neve Gordon: Even Picnics in Israel are Political
Dave Zirin: Pressure Builds on Bud Selig to Move 2011 All-Star Game
Vanessa Barrington: Is the Urban Farming Movement Here to Stay?
Donna Smith: Pallor and Pain; Sorrow and Stain
Robert Naiman: US Media Censors US Support of Iran Fuel Swap
John Nichols: Grayson's Smart Calculus Makes War Cost Real for Taxpayers
Randall Amster: Take a Hike: Misconceptions and Machinations Keep Activists Incarcerated in Iran
Kevin Zeese: Criminal Investigations of Massey Energy Go Forward as Citizen Pressure Builds for Prosecution
Pierre Tristam: From Times Square to Jacksonville: When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard
John Buell: Arizona, Globalization, and the Politics of Immigration

Monday May 24, 2010

Beverly Bell: Environment and Food and Haiti: Two Crises, One Solution
Robert Kuttner: Get a Grip: Austerity Does Not Produce Prosperity
Sean Gonsalves: A Virtual ‘Act of Faith’
Gary Younge: Israel's Complicity in Apartheid Crimes Undermines Its Attack on Goldstone
Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati: Resurrect the Estate Tax
Jesse Hagopian: Pedagogy of the Oppressor: Arizona’s Racism to the Top
Andy Worthington: House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
Robert Redick: Yes, Mr. President, It Was Your Katrina - Three Weeks Ago. Now it May Be Your Chernobyl
Chris Hedges: The Greeks Get It
Olga Bonfiglio: Blue Bayou
Ann Wright: Gaza, Here We Come to Break the Siege
Kathy Kelly and Josh Brollier: Message from Pakistan: “I Want to Live with My Family”
Norman Solomon: When the Leaders Lead, the People Have Sorrow
Stephan Salisbury: Citizen Alioune: How Not to Deal with Muslims in America

Sunday May 23, 2010

Desmond Tutu: It's Time to Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons
Jon Faulkner: Americans Must Share The Blame For Enabling BP
David Macaray: Labor Protests Calderon’s Visit to Washington
Randall Amster: Welcome to Arizona: “It’s a Dry Hate...”
David Michael Green: Liberated from Libertarianism: Rand Paul Runs and Hides from... Rand Paul

Saturday May 22, 2010

Pankaj Mishra: America's Exalted Capacity for Murder
Derrick Z. Jackson: Big Oil & Conflicts of Interest: Obama Owns This Mess
Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg: BP: The Buck Stops on Obama’s Desk
Susan Van Haitsma: Biking for Life
Bill Bigelow: Those Awful Texas Social Studies Standards. And What About Yours?
Michael Winship: Congress Gets a Kick in the... Pants
Michelle Chen: Farewell, June Cleaver: ‘Non-Traditional Families’ and Economic Opportunity
Ray McGovern: Dirty Linen Gets Intel Chief Fired
Ralph Nader: No Time For Consumer Power
Linh Dinh: Let Them Eat Twinkies

Friday May 21, 2010

Jane Hamsher: Revolt of the Wonks: Former Obama Advisors Want To Know What’s Happening on His Deficit Commission
Chris Hayes: Any Given Sunday
Simon Johnson: Focus On This: Merkley-Levin Did Not Get A Vote
Yousef Munayyer: Palestinian Nonviolence Relies on Global Non-Silence
John Nichols: What Happens When a Serious Libertarian Gets Serious Attention
Robert Weissman: Boycott BP
Conn Hallinan: Of Drone Wars and Buffalo Urine
Paul Rogat Loeb: How A 17-Year San Quentin Inmate Helps To Heal His Community
Nancy Talanian: Mothers of Iran's Detainees Fare Better Than Parents of US Detainees
Ramzy Baroud: Karazai’s Washington Visit: The War Awaiting Kandahar
George Lakoff: HUD is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America’s Public Housing
Alex Main: UNASUR: An Emerging Geopolitical Force
Tom Engelhardt: The Pentagon’s Window of Vulnerability?

Thursday May 20, 2010

Ted Rall: Nationalize BP and Other Criminal Corporations
Riki Ott: Human Health Tragedy in the Making: Gulf Response Failing to Protect People
Anna White: Challenging the Bailout Economy
Chris Hellman: Putting the Pentagon on a Diet: Will Bad Times and a Bad Economy Finally Discipline the Pentagon?
Phyllis Bennis: Can a Security Council 'Coalition of the Unwilling' Defy Washington's Sanctions Crusade?
Bruce Nilles and Kate Colarulli: Don’t Switch to Tar Sands and Other Dirty Fuels
Danny Schechter: The Financial Crisis as Three Card Monte
Sally Kohn: Why Ethnic Studies is Good For All Americans, Including White Folks
Beverly Bell: Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
Ray McGovern: US/Israel Challenged on Iran
Robert C. Koehler: The Learning Curve of Peace

Wednesday May 19, 2010

Bob Dreyfuss: Brazil, Turkey Engineer Breakthrough on Iran
Dave Lindorff: Protecting Social Security: It's a Flat Tax, Stupid!
John R. MacArthur: Fizzled Bombs Sparks Growth for Politicians
Ruth Conniff: Rand Paul Triumphs, Specter Booted, Lincoln in Run-Off
David Michael Green: Fear Comes of Age
Amy Goodman: Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit
Pat LaMarche: Shaming of the Screws
Ryan Harvey: A Relative Calm: The Occupation of Iraq in 2010

Tuesday May 18, 2010

Jeff Biggers: Resistance Grinds on Big Coal
Lucinda Marshall: Hillary Clinton's Dangerous Defense of Afghan Women
Sean Gonsalves: Diogenes - That’s My Dog
Randall Amster: Ode to Arizona
John Feffer: Times Square Bomber Popped a Bubble
Kathy Kelly and Joshua Brollier: Drones and Democracy
Roger Doiron: The Little Garden that Could
Harvey Wasserman: BP's Nuke-Powered Liability Cap
Charles Derber: Capitalism: Big Surprises in Recent Polls
Ewa Jasiewicz: A Force More Powerful
Robert Parry: Itching to Fight Another Muslim Enemy
Dean Baker: Politicians Ignore Keynes at Their Peril
John Nichols: Primary Primer: How to Read the Tea Leaves

Monday May 17, 2010

Elizabeth Kolbert: The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impact
Ben Lilliston: Supremely Important: Genetically Engineered Crops
Michelle Chen: How Weak is the American Power Act?
John Cavanagh: Marching on K Street to Transform Wall Street
Jayati Ghosh: Greece's Debt Must Be Restructured
Timi Gerson: Five Questions Monsanto Needs to Answer about its Seed Donation to Haiti
John Nichols: A Constitutional Conventional Candidate
Marcos Martinez : Urban Internet Inequalities Reinforce Social Inequalities
Robert Naiman: Can US Take 'Yes' for an Answer on Lula's Iran Mediation?
Chris Hedges: BP and the 'Little Eichmanns'
Ira Chernus: How Many US Progressives Please the Right-Wing Israel Lobby
Raed Jarrar: Necessary Vigilance for Iraq Withdrawal
Joshua Brollier: From Prayer to Paralysis: Patient Waiting for War’s End
Tom Engelhardt: Obama’s Flailing Wars

Sunday May 16, 2010

Mosharraf Zaidi: Pakistan's Challenge
Katha Pollitt: What Ever Happened to Welfare Mothers?
Eric Margolis: Britain’s PM Wants Relationship with US Re-Evaluated
Debra Eschmeyer: Let’s Move Child Nutrition
Dean Baker: Will They Get Fooled Again?
Laura Carlsen: War Crimes against Women: A Private Hell
Bahija Réghaï: Al Nakba: Expelled from Home and Native Land but Not from History
Haroon Siddiqui: A Way Forward in Afghanistan

Saturday May 15, 2010

Robert Fisk: Silenced for Speaking the Truth about Guantanamo
Ralph Nader: Getting to Know Elena Kagan
George McGovern: A Humbling Experience in One of Africa's Largest Slums
Kathy Kelly and Joshua Brollier: Pressured from All Sides in Pakistan’s Swat Valley
Kathy Kelly and Joshua Brollier: Pressured from All Sides in Pakistan’s Swat Valley
Linh Dinh: Virtual Living
Christopher Brauchli: Lieberman Strikes Again
Danny Schechter: Will the Wall Street Banksters Ever Be Held Accountable?
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Chevron's 'Crude' Attempt to Suppress Free Speech

Friday May 14, 2010

David Sirota: Blowback: Why They Try to Bomb Us
Les Leopold: Help! What's the Cure for Financial Insanity?
Riki Ott: All Hands on Deck: What Can You Do About the Gulf Oil Spill?
Christine Ahn and Linda Burnham: Arizona Rising
Robert Naiman: Could Congress Block Antiworker IMF 'Bailouts' in Europe?
Megan Tady: Million-Dollar Ad Blitz to Kill Net Neutrality
Mark Morford: Laura Bush Meets the Sex Bloggers
John Kirby: Let’s Rejoice in Terror’s Benefits!
Ramzy Baroud: Yemen’s Sorrowful Options: ‘Revolt, Migrate or Die’
Jim Goodman: A World of Benefits from Biotechnology? For Whom?
Tom Turnipseed: A Slick and Slimy Killer
Eugene Robinson: Outlawing Latinos’ Heritage
Jill Schneiderman: Pandora’s Oil Well
Paul Rogat Loeb: From An Eighth Grade Education To Testifying Before Congress
Marjorie Cohn: Kagan's Troubling Record

Thursday May 13, 2010

Greg Kaufmann: The Goldman Rule
Beverly Bell: The Economic and Political Occupation of Haiti
Andy Worthington: The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo
Greg Grandin: Glenn Beck, America’s Historian Laureate
Steve Valk: 350 Goal Will Never Be Achieved With Kerry-Lieberman
David Korten: Debt vs. Localization: Climate Justice in the New Economy
Alexia Eastwood: Overcoming Free Market Apathy
Rabia Chaudry: The Terrorist Expatriation Act: Joe Lieberman's Lawless New Law
César Chelala: Elie Wiesel's Wrong Move on Peace
Ira Chernus: Israel Provocation Gives US Leaders a Chance to Be Strong and Right
Robert C. Koehler: Dark Green

Wednesday May 12, 2010

Mark Weisbrot: Greeks in the Streets Are Right, EU Economists Have It Wrong
Jeremy Scahill: What Accountability, Mr. President?
Bill Quigley: Taking Back Homes from the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing
Katrina vanden Heuvel: How to Turn Congress Inc. Back to Just Congress
Harvey Wasserman: As We Die for BP, Our Military Rots in the Wrong Gulf
Code Pink: Message to Obama, Karzai and Congress: Americans and Afghans Need Jobs, Not War
Daphne Wysham: Moving Our Nation Beyond Petroleum
Robert Naiman: On Helping - If Not On Killing - Is America a Quitter?
Greg Kaufmann: Chase's Foreclosure Disgrace
Matthew Rothschild: The Disappointing Kagan Pick
Amy Goodman: Singing Lena Horne’s Praises
Ruth Conniff: Elena Kagan, Triumph of the Bland
Robert Scheer: Verify, Baby, Verify!
Dean Baker: Wall Street: Land of the Million Dollar Babies

Tuesday May 11, 2010

Mary Bottari: A Victory for the People!
Mark Floegel: You Can Hide, But You Can’t Run: Toxic Dispersants in the Gulf
Ben White: Israel Seeks to Silence Dissent
Laura Flynn: 'We Want Our Voices To Be Heard': Democracy in Haiti's Earthquake Zone
Jeremy Scahill: Georgetown Professor: 'Drones Are Not Killing Innocent Civilians' in Pakistan
David Swanson: Afghan Escalation Funding: More War, Fewer Jobs, Poor Excuses
David Dayen: Wall Street Hearts Charter Schools, Gets Rich Off Them
Heather McRobie: Canada's Tar Sands: A Dangerous Solution to Offshore Oil
Marcy Wheeler: Judge Rules Torture Doesn’t Violate Due Process
Pierre Tristam: Socialism, Capitalism, and Other Fallen Stock
Dean Baker: Banks Failing to Lend is Not the Problem
Derrick Z. Jackson: Horne’s Burden Then is Latinos’ Now
George Monbiot: Despite Despair, I'm Not Ready to Climb Dark Mountain
John Buell: Give Me Your Huddled Masses — Sometimes

Monday May 10, 2010

Robert Reich: The White House Should Stop Pandering to the Street and Support Three Critical Banking Reforms
Arthur MacEwan: The Power of the 'Bond Market' Near and Far
Bill Berry: Oil Spill Not This Year's Only Environmental Disaster
Daphne Wysham: Crime Pays for BP
Anna White: Why Local Economies Matter
Robert Kuttner: Teachable Moments -- But Where's the Teacher-in-Chief?
Chris Hedges: After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck with Nietzsche
Michael Parenti: Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Bill Quigley: Assassination of US Muslim Cleric is Illegal, Immoral and Unwise
Norman Solomon: Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values
Mary Bottari: It’s Time for the Big Banks to Spin Off their Craps Tables

Sunday May 9, 2010

Gary Kohls: The Original Anti-War Mother's Day
Matthew Rothschild: Roll Call of Shame on 'Too Big to Fail'
Michelle Chen: Demographics of Abortion: Race, Poverty and Choice
Olga Bonfiglio: The Economics of Organic Farming
Ed Kinane: All Earth is Alive and Akin
Beth George: Moms, Intuition, and the Case Against Drugging Our Kids
Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Kagan Choice Will Push Court to the Right
Donna Smith: Bombs for Moms

Saturday May 8, 2010

David Michael Green: The Age of Ennui
Danny Schechter: Was the Market Pushed?
Derrick Z. Jackson: Hungry Little Energy Devils
Tom Turnipseed: Terror Scare in Times Square
Tim Karr: Net Neutrality's Weird Week
Dan Froomkin: Obama Administration Demands Amnesia From Reporters Covering Gitmo
Christopher Brauchli: Evolution Revisited
Kristin Sundell: The US Must Not Resume Training Indonesia’s Killers
Michael Winship: Kent State and the Frisbee Revolution
Jon Walker: Compromise Fetishists: How Secret Deals Obscure Accountability, Subvert Democracy

Friday May 7, 2010

Marcy Wheeler: Cancer, Chemicals, and Corporations
Richard Eskow: Did Democrats Just Set a Brilliant Trap... For Themselves?
Scott Klinger : One Guy Pulls the Handle Too Hard, All the Slot Machines Come Up Lemons
Greta Berlin: We're Almost Ready to Sail to Gaza
Robert Naiman: Will Obama Say Yes to Afghan Peace Talks?
Dean Baker: Unwashed Masses 1, Fed 0: Sanders Scores
Corporate Crime Reporter: Former Oil Rig Worker Says Cheating on Blowout Preventer Tests Widespread
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen: Debt Crisis: The EU is Waterboarding Greece
Mark Weisbrot: Venezuela is Not Greece
Juan Gonzalez: Albany Charter Cash Cow: Big Banks Making a Bundle on New Construction as Schools Bear the Cost
Ira Chernus: Blood or Treasure? Obama’s Crucial Choice in the Middle East
Beverly Bell: The Urgency of Housing in Haiti

Thursday May 6, 2010

Joseph Stiglitz: Can the Euro be Saved?
John Nichols: Enlightened Founders Favored Pluralism Not a Law Setting a National Day of Prayer
Dave Zirin: 'Los Suns' Set Against Arizona's Immigration Law
Joseph Cirincione & Benjamin Loehrke: Some Nuclear Sunshine
Bill McKibben: Why Future Prosperity Depends on More Socializing
Miguel Perez: Gracias, Arizona!
Sally Kohn: They’re Not Illegal Immigrants, They’re Heroes
Jeffrey Kaye: Senior Greek Official: 'We May Have an Uprising in the Making'
Tom Hayden: One Case Against BP, Wall Street, and War
Naomi Starkman: The Snack Pack Problem: Cargill & Palm Oil
Ramzy Baroud: The Price of Courage: On Goldstone’s Bar Mitzvah and Finkelstein’s Book
Ray McGovern: Loose Lips on Iran Could Sink America
Robert C. Koehler: Sweet Athens, Georgia
Stephanie Pistello, Ben Evans, and Jeff Biggers: We Need a Road Map to a Coal Free Future

Wednesday May 5, 2010

Robert Weissman: Break Up the Banks: By the Numbers
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Sex, Lies and Oil Spills
Mary Bottari: Crunch Time for Financial Reform
Tom Engelhardt: All-Volunteer Wars
Jeremy Scahill: UPDATED: Were US Special Forces Involved in the Arrest of Faisal Shahzad?
Ruth Conniff: Time to Prosecute Corporate Criminals at Massey, BP
Amalia Deloney and Steven Renderos: Yes We Won’t? Can the FCC Stay True to Its Net Neutrality Promises?
Will Bunch: The Taserification of America
Amy Goodman: BP: Billionaire Polluter
Andrew Christie: Obama vs. Whales
Dean Baker: A Presidency in Peril: Warnings from Robert Kuttner
Bertha Oliva: A Real Truth Commission for Honduras
Medea Benjamin and Nancy Mancias: Did You Hear the Joke About the Predator Drone That Bombed?

Tuesday May 4, 2010

Bob Dreyfuss: Fearing Fear Itself
Zach Carter: Wall Street Reform, Financial Fraud, and Foreclosures
Phyllis Bennis: Massacres Expose Another Reason to End Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
John Nichols: Don't-Drill-Baby-Don't-Drill
Josh Silver: Obama FCC Expected to Abandon Net Neutrality, Universal Internet
Laura Flanders: Corporate Bombs Demand Justice Too
Robert Naiman: Can Brazil Save the World from War with Iran?
Corporate Crime Reporter: Let the Bankers Play Golf: Bring Back Three-Six-Three
Linh Dinh: This Oil Ride
Ali Abunimah: Will Obama Adopt a Dangerously Simplistic Peace Plan?
Jeremy Scahill: Secret Erik Prince Tape Exposed
Timi Gerson: Biotechnology: A False Sense of Food Security

Monday May 3, 2010

Megan Tady: Obama's FCC to Abandon Net Neutrality?
Anna White: Cochabamba and the Road to Cancun
Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
Fran Quigley: Johnsen, Constitution Both Denied Role in Obama Administration
Harvey Wasserman: The Triple Curse of the Corporate Climate Bill
David Helvarg: Obama's Ocean of Troubles
Julian Baggini: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Like Generations Before Us, We Make Excuses for the Clear Injustices of Our Age
Ed Garvey: Oil Spill Shows Why We Must Plan for the Worst
Elaine Holstein: What I Lost at Kent State
Stephen Soldz: Kent and Jackson State: Protest and Death; Hope and Defeat
James Carroll: How Not to Tell a True War Story

Sunday May 2, 2010

Paul Hendrickson: The Lost Dreams of Bert DeLeeuw
David Helvarg: Apocalypse Again
Caroline Arnold: Truth Wasn't Murdered May 4. People Were
Stacy Mitchell: A New Deal for Local Economies
Pierre Tristam: Arizona Boots Up Brown Immigrants’ Guantanamo
Fouad Pervez: Coverups in Afghanistan
Randall Amster: Was the Gulf Oil Spill an Act of War? You Betcha
David Michael Green: Suicide by Regressivism

Saturday May 1, 2010

Michael Winship: The Lowdown from Hightower
Dan Froomkin: Stop Robert Rubin Before He Kills Again
Michelle Chen: The Softer Side of Hate Crime?
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Winds of Change
Nick Clark: From the Wetlands in the Gulf, 'They Saw It Coming'
Tad Daley: The Grand Bargain of the NPT and the Rules of the Nuclear Game Today
Bill Quigley: Fire on the Bayou: Non-Stop River of Oil Heads to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida
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