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Safety on the Cheap
Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting …
Contractors Watching Contractors? Where Is the True Oversight? (Part I)
This is the first part of a two part series looking at the trend by the DoD to hire contractors to oversee other DoD contractors instead of doing the …
Ecologik – for Egypt and Our World
Global warming didn't pause at all during Cairo's recent rebirth. In fact, every month of inaction on Earth's climate emergency makes recovery that much harder and costlier.
The Flustercluck Doctrine
Comparative Suffering: Iceland vs. Ireland
A reader asked me a good question recently: Why do I have such kind words for Iceland's economic performance, when the decline in its gross domestic product was not …
Class Warfare, the Final Chapter
“There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.” -Warren Buffett to The New York Times, November 26, 2006 There …
Salary Ceiling, a Lever for Change
Over the last 30 years, disparities in income have exploded. While a big company CEO earned about 35 times the average salary of one of his employees during the …
Japan Confronts Multiple Crises as Death Toll Rises
Tokyo - Anxiety mounted in Japan on Tuesday as the country struggled to come to grips with the scope of the natural disaster that struck last Friday and the …
How the Tiny Kingdom of Bahrain Strong-Armed the President of the United States
The men walking down the street looked ordinary enough. Ordinary, at least, for these days of tumult and protest in the Middle East. They wore sneakers and …
Slaves in an Army of Destruction or Heroes in an Army of Construction?
Congress is not preparing to defend the people of the United States. It is planning to protect the capital of American speculators and investors.... Incidentally this preparation will benefit …