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Does Disclosure Help?
Following up on yesterday’s column about corporate spending, I saw that John Coates (Harvard Law School) and Taylor Lincoln (Public Citizen) have published a study of the relationship between …

Banking for California’s Future
Protesters demonstrate in San Francisco, California on June 10, 2009. California lawmakers are considering the establishment of a state-owned bank as a response to the state's ongoing budget problems. …

A Political Casualty of 9/11: The Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement
Nine-eleven's ten-year anniversary is sparking retrospectives ranging from lives lost to a War on Terror launched. But media accounts have omitted an important political casualty: the short-lived “anti-globalization” movement, …

Why the Palmer Report Deserves No Deference
Almost all the factual findings, as well as the legal analysis and conclusions of the recently leaked UN Secretary General’s Panel of Inquiry into the “Flotilla Incident” on May …

The Phony Solyndra Solar Scandal
Solyndra Solyndra was a startup solar-power equipment manufacturer based in Fremont, California that went bankrupt at the end of August. The company's solar collectors used a special …

US Military Defoliants on Okinawa: Agent Orange
A defoliant spray run is conducted by a UC-123B Provider aircraft as part of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War. (Photo: USAF) Introduction On …

Over 56 Million Americans Live in Poverty – How Census Bureau Propaganda Ignores the Suffering of 10 Million Impoverished Americans
Here we go again. The government and corporate media are pumping out more propaganda on vital economic statistics to mask the severity of our economic crisis. Deceptive unemployment, GDP, …

Kabul Attack Continues Taliban Control of War Narrative
Washington - Gen. David Petraeus wrote in his 2006 counterinsurgency manual that the U.S. command headquarters should establish a “narrative” for the counterinsurgency war – a simple storyline that …

Subversive Environmental History
Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA, April 1936. (Photo: Arthur Rothstein / Farm Security Administration) In an original …

Obama’s “Jobs Act” Proposal: Why Less Is More of the Same
President Barack Obama holds a copy of the American Jobs Act while announcing he is sending the $447 billion jobs package, his plan to create job growth, to Congress. …