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Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008" (Columbus, Free Press) and a member of the Election Integrity movement since 2001. Her original website, WordsUnLtd.com, first entered the blogosphere in 2003. She recently became a senior editor for Opednews.com. She has in the past taught college and worked as a full-time as well as freelance reporter. She has been a peace and election integrity activist since 1999. Her undergraduate and graduate educational background are in Spanish, classical philology, and historical and comparative linguistics. Her biography is most recently listed in "Who's Who in America" 2019 and in 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who. OpEd News Member for 919 week(s) and 3 day(s) 368 Articles, 229 Quick Links, 1130 Comments, 73 Diaries, 15 Series, 0 Polls
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Monday, March 28, 2011The Odd Couple: Torture and the Truth On the paradoxical symbiosis between torture and the truth at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011TEN YEARS LATER IN THE MIDDLE EAST--THE BOMB PLAYS ON When will we ever learn? Still in Iraq wanting to stay, still in Afghnistan, more furtively in Pakistan, our bomb plays on. Has the strikeback shifted to peaceful time bombs in Japan? Series: International (9 Articles, 27555 views), Islam and Interfaith Issues Including Islamophobia (21 Articles, 46348 views)
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011Rep. Keith Ellison Awarded for Visionary Leadership Speech given by Rep. Keith Ellison, first annual recipient of NSP's Visionary Leadership award. Series: Islam and Interfaith Issues Including Islamophobia (21 Articles, 46348 views)
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Monday, February 28, 2011Building Bridges of Understanding: A Visit from Imam Feisal A visit from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to the Friends Meeting of Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 23, 2011 Series: Islam and Interfaith Issues Including Islamophobia (21 Articles, 46348 views), The Capitol Beat (80 Articles, 134932 views)
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Sunday, February 20, 2011President's Day or Presidents' Day? The United States as an entity becomes introspective: a very serious spoof.
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Monday, February 14, 2011. . . on Valentine's Day (2011 and forever) Thoughts on the meaning of St. Valentine's Day and how distorted it is into materialistic hearts and flowers, not the type we really need, nor even the corny song, but let's ascend from there and see what happens. Series: Holidays (24 Articles, 32012 views)
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Sunday, February 6, 2011Howard Zinn's "Ballade for Americans" Impressions of a masterful volume, Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." Series: Reviews (107 Articles, 173503 views)
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Saturday, January 15, 2011MLK's Birthday: Shot Full of Holes It's MLK's birthday, but what progress have we really made? Is it only tokenism writ large? Series: Holidays (24 Articles, 32012 views)
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011Meteorology, Ecology, and the Future of Our World Did global warming cause the epidemic of die-outs among birds and fish as much as it is blamed for the natural disasters that killed so many people and destroyed so many municipalities last year (and continuing into this year)? Series: Greg Palast and environmentalism (23 Articles, 49714 views), International (9 Articles, 27555 views)
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Friday, December 31, 2010The Magic Word for 2011: "More" Heading into 2011, I clump all of my resolutions into one word, "more," in the positive sense and hope we can take baby steps, if not giant steps in that direction. I'm thinking that all things are possible. Improving "things as they are" should be our top priority. Not just doing more or thinking more, but accomplishing more.
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Friday, December 17, 2010Encore, WickedLeaks, and More! Thoughts on where WikiLeaks needs to go from here. Government opacity is a curse on freedom, but terrorism is a curse on life as we know it.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010Tax Cut Extension Traded for Unemployment Pittance: Appeasement? X not equal to Y Yesterday a 5-minute U-Tube version of Obama's Tuesday speech was circulated throughout US cyberspace with a plea for reactions. Here's what I said, wearing a T-shirt from Inauguration Day depicted Obama and McCain in a boxing ring, Obama triumphant, McCain KO'ed.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010Shall the Truth Set Us Free? (with a surprise afterword by Greg Palast) On the ultimate array of positive outcomes WikiLeaks may contribute to our hopelessly corrupt and corrupting "civilized" society. Series: Greg Palast and environmentalism (23 Articles, 49714 views)
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Sunday, November 14, 2010Fair Game (the movie): The Truth Saves a Marriage and Slaps a Tyrant's Hand Review of "Fair Game"--how Plame outsmarted the blame game (my second film this weekend--all flicked out). Series: Reviews (107 Articles, 173503 views)
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Saturday, November 13, 2010"In$ide Job" Inside Out An attempt at reiterating the salient points in Charles Ferguson's new documentary "Inside Out," which I re-spell with an internal dollar sign, in an attempt at wit and humor in an extremely tragic context. Series: Election Integrity (103 Articles, 230181 views), Reviews (107 Articles, 173503 views)
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Monday, November 8, 2010On Wars of All Time: Peterson and O'Hare's "An Iliad" Review of the final performance of the hit production "An Iliad," by Lisa Peterson and Richard O'Hare, at Princeton's McCarter Theatre yesterday, November 7. Series: Reviews (107 Articles, 173503 views)
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010Democracy or Dumbocracy? Only the Vote Counters Know for Sure Random thoughts as election results trickle in and my spirits sink. Series: Election Integrity (103 Articles, 230181 views)
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Saturday, October 30, 2010Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear: Colbert, Stewart,, and Audience Sober Up A commentary more than report on today's Sanity/Fear rally at the mall in Washington, DC, starring Stephen Colbert and John Stewart, especially Stewart. Series: Reviews (107 Articles, 173503 views), The Capitol Beat (80 Articles, 134932 views)
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010Woody Allen and "Hair": More Strange Bedfellows? Another post on the benefits and education from comparing unlikely components. This hearkens back to my "Tale of Two Books" and forward to the November elections. Series: Reviews (107 Articles, 173503 views)
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Saturday, October 23, 2010Climbing Toward D (Democratic)-Day: One Phone Call at a Time A few hours in a phonebank generated a gaggle of thoughts and emotions. Series: The Capitol Beat (80 Articles, 134932 views) |
