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Render to Caesar, Extraordinarily
Some of us pause on Good Friday to mark the torture and death of a high-value detainee rendered, extraordinarily, to Roman occupiers. Although the charges against Jesus of Nazareth …
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Job Growth Slows Sharply in March, Unemployment Edges Down to 8.2 Percent
(Photo: Vincent Ma / Flickr)The Labor Department reported that the economy added just 120,000 jobs in March, a sharp slowdown from the pace of the prior three months where …
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The Best Congress the Banks’ Money Can Buy
Here we go again. Another round of the game we call Congressional Creep. After months of haggling and debate, Congress finally passes reform legislation to fix a serious rupture …
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Kraft Foods Joins Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Leaving Corporate Front Group ALEC
(Photo: Scorpions and Centaurs / Flickr)Earlier today, we reported that Coca-Cola and PepsiCo said they would leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate front group that pushes controversial laws …
Another Fox Guarding the Henhouse? Obama’s DOJ Tax Division Assistant Attorney General Nominee
The recent revelation that Attorney General Eric Holder and Justice Department Criminal Division head Lanny Breuer were, prior to joining the Justice Department (DOJ), partners in a law firm …
Unarmed Black Woman Shot and Killed by Chicago Police Officer Less Than a Month After Trayvon Martin Shooting
Rekia Boyd."Her death certificate says killed by police, but I feel like my sister was murdered," says Martinez Sutton, whose 22-year-old little sister, Rekia Boyd, was shot in the …
East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful
Milan Kundera's truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there …
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The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism“
It is not news that Americans overwhelming disapprove of the job Congress is doing. And likely, it's not surprising that two-thirds of Americans told a London-based firm, Absolute Strategy …
Zionist BDS – Kosher for Passover
History should mark March 18, 2012, as an important date on the road to a just and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was the date on which …
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Ninety-Nine Percent Spring and Confronting Corporate Power
At this moment, we face an incredible choice. We can fight to win back the economy we had before the financial crisis. Or, we can allow ourselves to reimagine …