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“German Autumn” Reveals Similarities Between Postwar Germany and Our World Today
Although Stig Dagerman's book about postwar Germany was written over 60 years ago, his masterful telling of the citizens' circumstances evoke a feeling of similarity to the problems we …
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Women’s Work: Gender and the Global Food System
Women produce 60 to 80 percent of all food, both as subsistence farmers and as agricultural wage laborers.
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FDR Put Humanity First; the Sequester Puts It Last
FDR placed the needs of the American people above petty budgetary concerns, but today's leaders lack his courage and vision.
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Private Jet as Security Write-Off? 10 Most Insane Tax Loopholes
For corporations and the 1 percent, tax season offers plenty of ways to dodge Uncle Sam.
A Failure Analysis of the US Economy
An engineer analyzes the US economy in several aspects, including consumer and national debt; free trade versus fair trade; and economic reforms, proposing recommendations for the failing economy.
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How to Know When to Tax and When to Spend
Republicans have either forgotten or just ignored these common-sense Economics 101 principles that have guided our nation for hundreds of years.
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Lords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else
Richard Eskow: We're demanding sacrifice from the middle class - pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn't too big to fail.
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Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline “Devastatingly Cynical“
Keystone XL will require Obama to issue formal authorization, a key bit of leverage that activists are now hoping to use in the weeks ahead.
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“Bless Me, Ultima”: Movie Revisits Controversy, Succeeds, After 40 Years
Brown faces, magic of northern New Mexico's landscapes and Indo-Hispano culture in movie, Bless Me, Ultima, charm Roberto Rodriguez.
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How Inequality Is Killing the Dinosaurs
What killed the dinosaurs the first time around? Meteor? Global warming? Smoking? Salvatore Babones argues that the culprit for the loss and destruction of what little is left of …