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Senate Majority Invokes “Democracy Option“
A change in filibuster rule restores the possibility of a functioning Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of government.
How Can We Help America’s Opportunity Youth? Five Lessons Learned in New Orleans
Young people who aren't in school or working aren't beyond hope, but we need to invest more in the programs that will help them.
Biomass Thermal: The Logs That Break the Forest’s Back
While part of the biomass incineration movement is hailing a
Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance
The commodification of GMO seeds has created a monopoly over our food at the grave risk of our health and out economic freedom.
The Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme – Again
Wall Street has devised a new way to profit off the housing market - and this time it has nothing to do with risky mortgages.
Aftermath – The Vulgarity of Empire
The morning after Kennedy was buried, the country awoke to find a stranger in its bed. The indefatigable vulgarity of Lyndon Baines Johnson made unfavourable comparison inevitable.
McDonald’s, Hollande and Future Government
With the undermining of the traditional trust-based brand, economic theory predicted two things would happen.
The $10 Trillion Heist: The Great Corporate Tax Shift
If corporate America can create and sell the idea that they pay more taxes than their offshore capitalist cousins, then they are half way home to getting their paid …
Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Reapers of Their Own Destruction
While most Pakistanis reject the Taliban and other extremists, they also reject the American drones that violate their sovereignty and operate with impunity.
The Skunk Party Manifesto
“The best political system that money can buy is doing a great job for its customers and a lousy job for the rest of us,” writes Smith.