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“Merchants of Doubt”: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
(Image: Bloomsbury Press) Ben Santer is the kind of guy you could never imagine anyone attacking. He’s thoroughly moderate—of moderate height and build, of moderate temperament, of …
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There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market
(Image: Bloomsbury Publishers) Thing 1: There is No Such Thing as a Free Market What They Tell You Markets need to be free. …
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Bill Moyers Interviews Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers Journal. (Photo: Bill Moyers Journal) Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers. They have seen firsthand the toll war …
Zombie Politics: Dangerous Authoritarianism or Shrinking Democracy – Part II
The zombie metaphor points dramatically to a kind of “mad agency that is power in a new form, death-in-life.”
Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism – Part I
The growing numbers of zombies in the mainstream media have huge financial backing from the corporate elite.
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The Sense and Morality of Agnosticism
I can say with relative confidence (because what I'm saying, at least it would seem, has to be true) that there is only one necessary religion that has any merit …
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Treasure Islands: An Offshore Awakening
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“Unequal Protection”: The People’s Masters
(cdrummbks / flickr) Fast on the heels of the passage and then Supreme Court interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, a new type of feudalism emerged in America …
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“Wild Law” Would Codify Nature as Subject, Not Object
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Unequal Protection: The Early Role of Corporations in America
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Jane Anne Morris is a corporate anthropologist and writer in Madison, Wisconsin, and she is affiliated with the Program on Corporations, Law, …