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Günter Grass and the Anti-Semitism Canard
Günter Grass, some say, invites controversy. For many years, he excoriated his fellow Germans to come clean about their past and confront the brute facts that might help explain …
Help Occupy Help You
The Status Quo Is Unacceptable and Untenable According to Indiana University, over 46 million Americans (1 in 6 of us) are living below the poverty line and this number …
The Current Business Paradigm Is Toxic to Business and Society. Here’s How We Change It
Business being the most pragmatic of all social organizational forms, it historically has focused narrowly on its economic activity without being distracted by the demands of political affiliations, societal …
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty and Freaky Weather Into the Arena
When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else’s — which …
How to Rebrand Occupy
“The 99% Movement” has something for everyone, even the left, but is it Occupy? By all measures the Occupy movement is a powerful brand. It has thousands of spin-offs …
Mideast Tweeters Probe the Tenderest of Authoritarian Sore Spots
"On the one hand, it's deeply worrying that the government is seeking to create a surveillance culture that encompasses spying on all digital media. "On the other, that same …
Confronting the Big Empty
Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural …
ALEC Retreats, the Right Wing Freaks
Occupy Santa Fe protesters demonstrate against ALEC in January, 2012. (Photo: suenosdeuomi) Customers should be able to know if companies that they are supporting with their purchases are busy …
The Obama Contradiction
He has few constraints (except those he's internalized). No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to …
Pentagon Disputes Bales’ Account of Friend Being Wounded, Losing Leg
The Pentagon has disputed a contention by Robert Bales' attorney that his client was “upset” over a friend losing a leg to a roadside bomb, in the days prior …