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Messing With Our Minds: The Ever Finer Line Between News and Advertising
Almost every nation needs a controlled mainstream media if it is to regulate and influence its citizenry. By way of the mainstream media, a controlling authority is able to …
Drone Warfare: Killing Our Civil Liberties With a Joystick
Drone warfare is cowardly. A technician jiggles a joystick. Seconds later, thousands of miles away, a Reaper drone robot airplane fires a Hellfire missile, maiming or dismembering unsuspecting, unarmed, …
Prisoners’ Families Are Paying for State Prison Kickbacks in Order to Phone Their Loved Ones
The average state commission was 42 percent, but some reached as high as 60 percent of the money from the phone calls.
The First Domino Falls in Greece
Greeceu2019s situation is not an isolated event, but a bellwether for the industrial world and beyond.
“Dirty War” Tactic of Disappearances Reappears in Mexico
The War on Drugs is becoming another u201cDirty Waru201d in Mexico, with the tactic of enforced disappearances reappearing as a commonplace occurrence in the country.
Feds Punt on Leadership Over Fracking Rules, Experts Say
New BLM rule stands up well next to state regulations, says one scientist. But unfortunately, that's because most state regulations are very poor.
Québec Suspends Civil Liberties in Response to the Student Strike
In Canada's francophone Province of Quu00e9bec, it is students that have mobilized this year to combat growing austerity plans and, in particular, a post-secondary tuition hike of 82 percent …
Obama, Education and the End of the American Dream
Obama is a skillful politician and a great orator. He has consistently made reference to the American Dream in his campaigning for the presidency and after, often focusing on …
The Not-So-Free Market: How Consumerism Fuels Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the commercialization of that which no one has the right to sell - human lives. These lives - approximately 30 million women, men, girls and boys …
Contemplating the Abyss
On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS celebrants marched …