The extraordinary success and resonance that Slumdog Millionaire has garnered from audiences around the world has not been universally matched in India, where there has been revulsion and occasional protest at the portrayal of the brutality and squalor of Mumbai slum life. Indians can be very prickly about the country’s image abroad, even if the [...]

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Obama’s War?
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by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
This article appeared in the March 9, 2009 edition of The Nation.
February 18, 2009
Two decades and two days after the Soviet army withdrew from its disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, it saddens me that we may be heading down the same path. Especially troubling is that President Obama, who wisely ordered a [...]

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Montana Women For will be joining the MSU Women’s Center in presenting a very special event at the Gallatin Valley Cinema in Bozeman March 5, 2009. On that evening, more than 120,000 people across the United States will make a powerful noise in honor of International Women’s day by gathering in more than 450 [...]

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Tim Cahil, adventure writer and humourist
Kira Salk,  war correspondent and National Geographic writer and first woman to walk across Papua New Guinea
Scott McMillion, journalist and auther of “Grizzly”
Alston Chase, biographer and naturalist and Jack Russell dog expert
Maryanne Vollers, authors of Ghosts of the Mississippi, Icebound, Wolf, and Hillary Clinton collaborator on Living History
and nationally reknowed [...]

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Labor’s Man Joins Treasury Team
by WILLIAM GREIDER
February 16, 2009
People getting nervous about Barack Obama’s plans to rescue the financial system got a kernel of good news they probably did not recognize. Ron Bloom of the United Steelworkers Union, a brainy veteran of investment banking, has been asked to join the insiders–advising Treasury officials on the [...]

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Congressman Frank’s Plan To Reduce Military Spending
1. Withdrawal From Iraq:
A timely withdrawal from Iraq could create $105 billon in savings in year one, if the recommendations from Center for American Progress report “Building a Military for the 21st Century” are followed
At the present time, the United States is spending about $10 billion a month to [...]

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Montana Women For is back after a long election year semi-hiatus and we have a packed calendar for the next few months and need you to be seriously involved.
Obviously, as our collective economy tanks underneath us, much of our energy will focus on local efforts to ameliorate our own and our neighbours suffering, focusing on [...]

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Dear Friend,
The Montana constitution and Montana law prohibits any insurer from discriminating on the basis of sex or marital status. This law has been on the books in Montana for 25 years, and for 25 years no legislature has overturned it.
But these protections are at risk, Senate Bill 142, sponsored by Senator Gary Perry (R, [...]

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NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Choice Action Network
Our Privacy Rights are Under Attack
We need you to take action!
Dear Susan,
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee heard Senator Dan McGee’s (R- Laurel) SB 46, which amends the Montana Constitution, eliminating privacy protections that have been in place in Montana for nearly 40 years.
This amendment would authorize governmental intrusion into every [...]

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We’ll Never Be Happy Consumers Again — No Stimulus Package Can Bring That Back

By James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. Posted February 10, 2009.

The political theater of the moment in Washington is focused on the illusion that we can find new ways of keeping the [...]

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