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Dumping on Low-Wage Workers Is Lousy Direct Action
How do you attack consumerism without attacking consumers - or workers?
4 Ways Congress Could Either Protect Your Rights, or Instead Assault Them
This year's post-election “lame duck” congressional session presents several disturbing threats—alongside exciting opportunities—for fundamental civil liberties. Measures extending government authority to conduct dragnet warrantless wiretapping, and arbitrarily detain Americans …
Behavior Modification and an Authoritarian Society
Those who rise to power in the corporatocracy are control freaks, addicted to the buzz of power over other human beings, and so it is natural for such authorities …
Will Obama’s Second Term Finally Fulfill His 2008 Promises?
Part three in a series that examines pportunities for the Obama administration, in its second term, to finally pursue his 2008 campaign promise to restore civil liberties.
Black Friday: A Day Forgotten and Reborn
A name for a day of huge business losses has become the name for a day of hoped-for business gains. How'd that happen?
Unusual Shredding and Worrisome Polling in Germany
No, it wasnu2018t shredded wheat. This shredding was not of breakfast food and has been much harder to digest; it was evidence on serial murder!
Gaza’s Other War
Israel and Gaza have been torn apart by missile strikes this week, but Gazau2019s rapidly depleting aquifer is about to make things even more precarious.
It’s Mostly Punishment: Testimonies by Veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces From Gaza
Testimonies by Veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces From Gaza and the Occupied Territories
Chris Hedges: Stand Still for the Apocalypse
The political and corporate elites in the industrialized world continue, in spite of overwhelming scientific data, to place short-term corporate profit and expediency before the protection of human life …
Honor and Scandal as Covers for the Wrongs of Militarism
The scandal that brought down Petraeus is just a cover for the deep wrong of militarism.