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Fatalities in the GOP War on Regulation
Welcome to a glimpse of Mitt Romney's and the Republican's Party's Holy Grail for economic revival - a free market on steroids, and a war on regulation.
Forget the Election and the Politics: What Will Make FEMA Work for the People?
What would Leo do? Advice on managing the disaster of Sandy from the man who has seen the best and worst of FEMA.
GMOs, Seed Wars and Knowledge Wars
The only way corporations can push GMO seeds on farmers is by destroying alternatives.
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Major Retailer Urges Workers to Take “Civics Course” With Anti-Obama Content
AlterNet uncovers an anti-Obama program linked to the Koch brothersu2019 Americans for Prosperity, spoon-fed to employees of a major home-improvement chain.
The Electoral College: Another Front in the War Against Labor
Thanks to the Electoral College protecting slave holders, they were able to keep their influence in government for much longer than they likely would have without this system.
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The Basic Fact of Life on Earth
Sometime in the 1990s I heard the Harvard professor of medicine, Eric Chivian, make a presentation on Capitol Hill about the anthropogenic origins of global warming. He is an …
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Why Chavez Won Again
If you want to understand how the Chavez administration continues to win free and fair elections, you need only hear the stories of formerly marginalized communities and look more …
What Does Romney’s Campaign of Lies Say About Our Country?
A population that has been primed to believe things that are not true is a population that can be herded into outrageous actions.
My Meeting With Tariq Aziz: One of An Estimated 176 Children Killed by Drones in Pakistan So Far
As the U.S continues to keep its drone policy secret, and fails to acknowledge civilian casualties, the author describes the murder by a drone strike of a boy he …
Operation Caymans
"Will you support the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act to bring back $100 billion of lost offshore tax revenue a year, or will you let corporate pirates continue to …