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Michael Moore: How I Became Anti-War
(Image: Grand Central Publishing) I can’t quite remember when I turned against the idea of war, but I’m sure it had something to do with the fact …
Unequal Wealth
(Image: JR / Truthout) In the absence of the controls recommended by the Founders and early state regulation, corporations have continued to grow in size and power …
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Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President
(Image: HarperCollins) President Barack Obama dances lightly down the four marble steps to the Rose Garden and across the flagstones to a waiting lectern. He still glides, …
Unequal Citizenship and Access to the Commons
(Image: JR / Truthout) There are resources and there are resources. For corporations, resources include raw materials, labor, the property and the equipment they use, the talents …
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Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan
(Image: Chelsea Green) It was a warm Thursday afternoon on August 5, 2010, in a remote woodland of the Hindu Kush mountains when a band of men …
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Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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Not Since the War of 1812
The horrifying atrocities of September 11 are new in world affairs, not in their scale and character, but in the target.
Humans v. Corporations: Unequal Privacy
(Image: JR / Truthout) Who reads your mail? Nobody? It depends what system you use for communication. Paper mail that is delivered by the government-run U.S. Postal …
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Project “Censored 2012”: Moving Beyond Media Reform
As we approach the historically prophetic and now mass media-hyped “End of Times” year of 2012, hysterical speculation abounds. The failed prediction of a preacher in Oakland, California, who …
Unequal Responsibility for Crime
(Image: JR / Truthout) Consider this August 3, 2001, White House press briefing, in which the editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, Russell Mokhiber, asked a question of …