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On the Ground in Port-au-Prince
Hundreds of thousands of people are living and sleeping on the ground in Port-au-Prince. Many have no homes, their homes destroyed by the earthquake. I am sleeping on the …
Obama Budget Aims at Solidifying Women’s Support
Washington - With women's advocacy groups voicing growing unease with administration policy, President Barack Obama will propose a $3.8 trillion budget on Monday that would exempt programs for women …
Big Bodies vs. the Biosphere
Confronting the global corporate hijack of Nagoya's COP10. In the fog of war, climate chaos and economic ruin, the import of the United Nations' COP10 biodiversity treaty conference in …
The Second Great Depression Bogeyman
Our political leaders continually assert that we should be thanking them that we are not in a second Great Depression rather than complaining about how bad things are. The …
Gerald E. Scorse | Obama, Read Your Reagan
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was President Ronald Reagan's last fiscal legacy. It showcased his deep belief in trickle-down economics, cutting the top rate on personal income nearly …
Justice Department Clears Torture Memo Authors John Yoo, Jay Bybee of Misconduct
Click here to download the podcast of an interview Peter B. Collins conducted with Jason Leopold about the OPR report's findings. A long-awaited Department of Justice watchdog report that …
Systemic Failures, by Design
Over the past dozen years, the US has experienced a series of dangerous and costly systemic failures throughout our security and regulatory framework. The unfettered bubble in technology, missed …
GRITtv: Rembering Howard Zinn (Video)
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” Howard Zinn famously said. He didn’t believe in staying closeted in the academy, though he was a brilliant historian whose book, …
Why the Tea Party Convention Is Tea-tering on the Edge
With two major speakers throwing in the towel, the first-ever Tea Party convention is giving Americans a glimpse at internecine fighting over the direction of the libertarian movement. But …
Drifting Toward Catastrophe: A Seven-Headed Beast
Sometimes when I'm on a photo shoot, I change my camera focus to close-up, which puts me just inches, say, from the inside of a flower. I can spend …