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Jim Hightower | Disclosing the Meekness of the “Disclose” Bill
At last, after weeks of analyzing, calculating, pondering, consulting and crafting, Democratic leaders in Washington have unveiled their much-awaited legislative response to the Supreme Court's January decision in the …
Deb Price | Martina, Always a Winner
This past Sunday, the kick-off day to the 2010 French Open, tennis legend Martina Navratilova was calling the shots on the Tennis Channel, spinning in a bit of philosophy …
The Case for Socialism
It's obvious that if you repeat something often enough, in an authoritative voice, listeners will begin to believe what you say. That’s the theory behind both advertising and …
Ruth Marcus | Palin the Obfuscator
Washington - Has Sarah Palin learned anything since she was plucked from obscurity almost two years ago? Not that I can tell. It was not Palin's fault that she …
Obama to Send 1,200 National Guard Troops to Border
Washington - President Barack Obama will dispatch up to 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border and will ask Congress for $500 million to shore up …
If It’s Good for General Motors, Is It Good for the Rest of Us?
“What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” This is the most famous quotation never said by Charles Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of Defense. (He actually said …
Meditations on Hip Hop: Of Disposability, Death and Destiny (Part III)
Destiny A learning process might appear … for the crushed, the forbidden-to-be, the rejected, that would teach them that, through serious, just, determined, untiring struggle, it is possible …
BPing the Arctic?: Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf?
Bear with me. I'll get to the oil. But first you have to understand where I've been and where you undoubtedly won't go, but Shell's drilling rigs surely will …
BPing the Arctic? Will the Obama Administration Allow Shell Oil to Do to Arctic Waters What BP Did to the Gulf? (2)
Bear with me. I'll get to the oil. But first you have to understand where I've been and where you undoubtedly won't go, but Shell's drilling rigs surely will …
A “New World Order” Is Possible
This article was published in Fohla de São Paulo, Brazil's largest circulation newspaper, on May 25, 2010. The English version appears below; the Portuguese version is here Em Português.