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State Budget Cutbacks Lead to an Unexpected Silver Lining: Prison Reform
Over the past few years, states have acutely felt the pain of our nation’s economic woes. As some governors cope with revenue shortfalls by raising taxes and others enact …
What Can We Do to Support Egypt?: Address in Solidarity With the Popular Revolution
We have all been moved by the courageous actions of the Egyptian people in recent weeks. In response to their inspiring example, we might ask the following question: What …
Can We Please Stop Blaming Immigrants?
Hostility in the United States toward immigrants has risen sharply in recent years. The strongest sign of this was the law signed last April by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, …
Worker Productivity: The French Connection
Workers in the United States are more productive, per capita, than workers in European nations, according to 2009 federal government statistics. But does this mean that Europeans are doing …
Tom Engelhardt | Pox Americana: Driving Through the Gates of Hell and Other American Pastimes in the Greater Middle East
As we've watched the dramatic events in the Middle East, you would hardly know that we had a thing to do with them. Oh yes, in the name …
Corporate Media Push Wrong Story on Obama’s Relationship With Business
President Barack Obama is hoping to “mend ties” with big business by speaking to the US Chamber of Commerce (COC), Washington DC’s top lobbyist. That’s the frame we’re hearing …
Obama Challenges Big Business to Spend and Hire
Washington - President Barack Obama challenged big business Monday to tap into its huge reserves of cash and start hiring. “Now is the time to invest in America,” Obama …
Five Ways to Help Your Community Go Local
For four consecutive years, Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) has undertaken a unique research project, surveying thousands of independent businesses about their sales figures from …
Environmentalism of the Poor: What Democracy Is Teaching Us
Triple Crisis is pleased to welcome Sunita Narain, Director of India’s Center for Science and the Environment and editor of “Down to Earth” magazine, as a regular blogger.
Dave Lindorff | America: Standing in the Way of Democracy
It is pathetic and even laughable to hear American leaders, and the leaders of the other Western democracies in Europe, cautioning that Egypt’s revolution needs to move slowly, as …