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The Butterfly Effect: Do Monarchs’ Woes Signal Broader Problems?
The great monarch migration is in peril, a victim of rampant herbicide use in faraway corn and soybean fields, extreme weather, a tiny microbial pathogen and deforestation. Monarch butterfly …
Hijacking the American Plane of State: Old Scripts and Empty Stories Signal a New Age
If you want a news story that will glue eyes, then think of it this way: on September 12, 2001, the national security state entered the cockpit of the …
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Should GM Get the Death Penalty for 57 Cent Premeditated Murder?
Executives at General Motors have answered the age-old question of how much is a life worth. A life is worth 57 cents.
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Nomi Prins | The Real Vice-President of the United States Is Wall Street
In “All the Presidents' Bankers” Wall Street journalist Nomi Prins writes a painstakingly researched history of the financial industry's collusion with the White House to create a self-serving US …
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Paul Krugman | Ignoring the Evidence, and Waiting for Inflation
It's interesting to note that the really smart Wall Street money doesn't buy into this “finance macro canon.”
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Facebook and the Future of Global Governance
Although Facebook is a for-profit organization, its users could transform it into a form of participatory democratic global governance.
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Changing Our Climate of Indifference
Climate change is causing real-time crises in countries around the world, but nothing is being done about it.
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Joseph Stiglitz | Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It
The idea that one shouldn't worry about inequality because everyone will benefit as money trickles down, has been thoroughly discredited
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Five Hypocrisies of the NRA
The NRA's extreme political views can be infuriating to even sensible supporters of the Second Amendment, particularly when they reek of hypocrisy.
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Ten Things Wrong With What Kids Learn In School
Mainstream media, cued by corporate press releases, routinely claim that America's schools are markedly inferior to schools in other developed nations. The claim is part of an organized campaign …