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The Pain of Austerity, Remedied by Keynesian Policy
There's now a full-court press of the usual suspects claiming that the recovery in Britain proves that fiscal austerity isn't contractionary after all, that the International Monetary Fund had …
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Conservatives Are Scared Straight by a Frenchman
Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.
Bill Moyers: Government Is Now a Protection Racket for the 1%
Inequality is what has turned Washington into a protection racket for the 1 percent. It buys all those goodies from government: tax breaks, tax havens, loopholes, favors like carried …
Pro-Life and Social Death: A Portrait of Tennessee
One Tennessee new law proposes to bring back the electric chair should lethal injection drugs prove unavailable. The other would allow for criminal assault charges to be brought against …
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Michio Kaku’s Presentation of Science and Technology is Triumphantly Naïve
Working towards the cure for Alzheimer's is truly noble, and on the surface seems benign and good-willed enough. However, one need neither be a pessimist to find this presentation …
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The Brief Life and Times a Nigger from Palestine
By treating the needs of the people as holy, Jesus and his followers troubled religious and political elites conception of themselves.
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Open Letter to President Obama
Mr. President: It's time to move from talk to action on nuclear disarmament.
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The ‘Stable’ West Bank Dilemma
The bewilderment would stem from the fact that the West Bank is an occupied Palestinian territory. Its population is held at gunpoint; they have no freedom, and enjoy no …
Obama Made Me Lose My Facebook Friends
What's a 6-year continuation of war in the Graveyard of Empires sans Ahmad Shah Massoud, when Leave it to Beaver looking dresses are flying off the shelves and J. …
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The Counter-Attack of Seattle’s Elites
The fight for a living wage intensifies.