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National Science Board Report: US Losing Research and Development Jobs to Asia
The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 …
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Political Decay
Political decay is a disease afflicting all societies. Like Aristotle said, all men are political animals but rarely honest political animals. The Greeks invented political theory and …
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The Gentle Economic Collapse of the Empire
I've been thinking of Revolution or the fall of the Empire, radical awakening of unity consciousness for years, as early as 1994 I was thinking about the fall of …
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TransCanada: No More Than 6,000 Pipeline Workers on the Job “on Any Given Day“
As the Feb. 21 deadline approaches for the Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the project's supporters have launched a new advertising campaign touting its job …
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Decline “Friend” Request: Social Media Meets 21st Century Statecraft in Latin America
A Senate report released in October 2011 urging the US government to expand the use of social media as a foreign policy tool in Latin America offers another warning …
How to Create a Depression
Cambridge - European political leaders may be about to agree to a fiscal plan which, if implemented, could push Europe into a major depression. To understand why, it is …
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Labor and Environment: Next Steps for Dialogue
What does the future hold for the relationship between environmentalism and organized labor? Judging from the highly-publicized controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline, America might appear to be entering …
Utah Doctors Join the Occupy Movement
Open pit copper mine run by London-based mining conglomerate Rio Tinto/Kennecott in Bingham Canyon, Utah. It is the world's largest open-pit mine and has created the world's largest …
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The FBI Spied on Me and Then Lied About It
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: zota, kalavinka) Five years ago, I joined a group of leaders of the Southern California Muslim community in an attempt to find …
Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Flag-Waving Politicians Think
Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so. Throughout the scramble for …