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A Wall Street Devil Gets Religion … and an Apt Epitaph
Hallelujah and Holy Smokes! Wall Street has had a
A Democratic Country Should Put Public Education Before Corporate Profits
Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting like crazy and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has released a report warning about the looming …
How the European Central Bank Came to Control the Fate of the World Economy
The ECB has the power to end the eurozone crisis. But it refuses to do so, in order to push a regressive political agenda.
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Correctional Corporation of America Accreditation Report Misses Stark Reality
But below the spin is a different reality for the company and the prisoners that it oversees - food riots and abuse scandals.
Is the Washington Post Being Asset-Stripped?
While the company has been bleeding revenue and income in the last year-plus, it has actually been increasing the amount of cash it pays out in dividends.
Nuclear Strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction Ignores Human Fallibility, Accident Risk
A prominent proponent of MAD puts his faith in nuclear deterrence, justifying his position in historical terms.
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The Ubermensch Rises: Justice, Truth and Necessary Evil in “The Dark Knight Rises“
We can't rely on a hero to save us, nor count on an unjust system to miraculously transform itself. We must tear off the mask and take matters into …
Michelle Alexander on the Irrational Race Bias of the Criminal Justice and Prison Systems
Michelle Alexander: Yes, I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.
Good Riddance to the Air Force’s Religious Intolerance Enabler in Chief
On soon-to-retire Gen. Norty Schwartz's watch, we saw the coverup of an unlawful epidemic in which thousands of USAF men and women have been subject to religious persecution.
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Top DHS Officials Went Ballistic Over Rolling Stone Contributor Michael Hastings’ OWS Report, Internal Emails Show
Internal emails reveal DHS planned to challenge purported inaccuracies in a news story on surveillance of Occupy, but the inaccuracies appear to be confined to the agency's own documents.