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Jim Hightower: Turning College Students Into Commodities
Turning Wall Street loose on college students will turn them into chattel indentured to investors.
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Unions Expect Verizon to Impose Terms, Ready to Walk Out Again
Verizon workers struck for two energetic weeks last summer in response to billionsu2019 worth of concessions demands from the profitable telecommunications company. Now, after 12 more months of fruitless …
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The Bomb and the Drone: The Grim Reaper Keeps Taking Its Toll
The United States' use of drones in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Yemen echoes its use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
$54 Million Surplus Forces State Parks Director’s Resignation
Ruth Coleman, the controversial State Parks Director, resigned this morning as a preliminary investigation into Department of Parks and Recreation finances revealed that the agency was sitting on $54 …
The Temptations of Drone Warfare
A famous utterance attributed to General Robert E. Lee during the U.S. Civil War is, u201cIt is well that war is so terrible u2013 lest we should grow too …
$54 Million Surplus Forces State Parks Director’s Resignation
Ruth Coleman, the controversial State Parks Director, resigned this morning as a preliminary investigation into Department of Parks and Recreation finances revealed that the agency was sitting on $54 …
The Temptations of Drone Warfare
A famous utterance attributed to General Robert E. Lee during the U.S. Civil War is, u201cIt is well that war is so terrible u2013 lest we should grow too …
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Super Rich Holding $21 Trillion Overseas to Avoid Taxation
The $21 trillion alone is the amount of the US and Japanese economies combined.
How the Militarized War on Drugs in Latin America Benefits Transnational Corporations and Undermines Democracy
Canadian journalist Dawn Paley dispels the notion that nearly a trillion dollars spent on eradicating illegal drug trafficking (since Richard Nixon's administration) has shown any serious success.
Assassination Nation: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones
US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century.