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Fresh Hell When Congress Returns
Dave Johnson takes a look at the latest excuses for why Congress remains in a hopeless deadlock.
“Frackademia” by Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
With the school year starting for many this week, it's another year of academia for professors across the United States - and another year of “frackademia” for an increasingly …
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Obama’s Political Capital and the Slippery Slope of Syria
“Time and again we have seen domestic agendas succumb to military adventures abroad — both because the military-industrial-congressional complex drains money that might otherwise be used for domestic goals,” …
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Failing Up to the Fed: a Reporters’ Guide to the Paper Trail Surrounding Larry Summers
Here are a few items from Larry Summers' public record you might want to review.
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CEOs Being Paid for Poor Performance
Over the past two decades, the myth of CEOs earning their runaway pay packages has grown into the ultimate scam.
Hope in a Time of Permanent War
Hope is a subversive, defiant practice that resists ideas that pose a threat to democracy.
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Eight Arguments Against Going to War With Syria
US military action against Syria would be illegal, strategically counterproductive, destructive and deeply unpopular.
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Building the Commons as an Antidote to the Predatory Market Economy
We must mobilize to save the commons and build the foundation for a world in which people work together.
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Response to Syria a Duplicitous Affair
Caution about war against Syria is more than warranted by knowledge of the history of US interventions in other countries' domestic quarrels.
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Other Worlds’ Beverly Bell Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
Beverly Bell: Defining our community as social movements, the greatest challenge they articulate is growing control by transnational capital over everything, from the marketing of air (through carbon trading) …