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Op-Ed
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Obama’s Flawed Emissions Proposal: Cap-and-Trade, “Offsets” Allow Plants to Pay to Pollute
Cap-and-trade is a let-you-down-easy way to regulate, and it generally lets the regulated industry decide how easy.
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A Modern-Day Debtors’ Prison? Judges Push Back Against the South’s Privatization Wave
In Southern states, small-town courts have outsourced probation management to for-profit companies.
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Walmart’s Top-to-Bottom Taxpayer Subsidies
Walmart executives get big bonuses as employees and taxpayers suffer.
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Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor Into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
Building a DNA database within the NHS would be a massive waste of public money. But it would also create a system of total surveillance which would enable the …
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Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
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Should We Fight the System or Be the Change?
Should we push for transformation within existing institutions, or should we model in our own lives a different set of political relationships that might someday form the basis of …
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Opposing Local Hawaii Law, Big Agribusiness Confuses GMO Regulations With Same-Sex Marriage Discrimination
What do same-sex marriage and genetically-engineered soybeans have in common? Nothing, but big agribusiness is banking on a federal judge in Hawaii to make the connection.
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Communism – Yes! But for Whom?
The recent FCC proposal to end net neutrality illustrates the trend toward corporate communism, but a social communism is what needs to be rehabilitated.
Warmonger Media Storm Against Saving Sgt. Bergdahl Shows Why We Have So Much War
The political forces that are trashing the deal to rescue Sgt. Bergdahl are the same political forces that got us into the Iraq war and who want to keep …
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William Rivers Pitt | “Men’s Rights” and the Septic Tank of History
A lot of comfortable people (read: mostly men) believe the rights of women have been settled and established. In truth, the rights of women are under assault across this …