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Give BP the Death Penalty
If corporate charters were contingent on corporations operating in the best interests of the public, as they used to be, then our nation would get some long-overdue for some …
Likening Palestinians to Blades of Grass
Israeli hardliners joke about the periodic need to decimate each new generation of Palestinian militants as u201cmowing the grass,u201d a process underway again in new bombardments of Gaza.
Living Up to “The New Deal”: Half the Nation Is Still Waiting
FDR realized that the nation's future well being would be undermined if some fraction of our people - whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth - is ill-fed, …
In Leaked Documents, Honeywell Cites Obama Ties as Key to Anti-Union Strategy
A leaked internal Honeywell document outlines an anti-union strategy that includes leveraging Obama administration connections.
It Was Actually Romney Who Campaigned Bearing “Gifts“
But instead of offering his gifts to actual people, Romney pledged to reward his favorite kinds of virtual people - corporations and banks.
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Occupy’s New Offshoot Set to Cancel Millions in Medical Debts
Ordinary people donated enough money to collectively buy an estimated $5.9 million in bad debt in order to cancel it.
De-Pinkwashing Israel
Palestinian, US and Israeli LGBT groups are mobilizing against Israeli pinkwashing.
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Will an Artist Please Render That Scientific Fact?
As a follow-up to my op-ed yesterday, “Science Fiction Science Fact,” I'd like to call to readers' attention the Op-Ed in today's New York Times by Orrin Pilkey. Orrin …
Three Strikes and It’s Out!
While there has been suspicion that the ‘Grand Bargain’ being put forth by the White House to Congress was instead a ‘Grand Betrayal,’ nobody had the details until they …
The People’s Bailout of The People
It is no surprise that in the Hypercapitalist world we live there exists a market for everything. Right now, somewhere in cyberspace, a debt collector is bidding on medical …