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United States Divided: Galt’s Junction and the Canadian Dream
Creating a new Canadian-American Dream might be the only way to guarantee the equal shots at success and opportunity that the American Dream once promised.
Low Ferritin: Is this a Canary in the Coal Mine?
This story pulls together the diverse/niche topics of running, fermented food consumption, and the possibility that fast food outlets are poisoning American kids in harmful ways yet undisclosed.
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What Is at Stake: India’s Elections
The parliamentary elections in India have thrown up sharp divisions among the intellectual class.
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Chevron in Ecuador Representative of Multinationals’ Continuing Abuse of Indigenous Peoples
When the company became inactive in Ecuador, it left a catastrophic mess behind.
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Fast-Food Protests Go Global
It is easy to understand why workers are protesting an industry that has become known for poverty wages and poor working conditions.
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Building a Movement for Happiness
Vermont and Bhutan have embraced happiness rather than GDP as a measure of social success.
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It’s True: An Economy Can Be Damaged by Too Little Spending
Shouldn't it be easier to sell win-win ideas, which will make everyone (or almost everyone) better off? Well, it would be if the public “got” Keynesian economics.
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Jackson Rising: Black Millionaires Won’t Lift Us Up, but Cooperation and the Solidarity Economy Might
The myth of wealthy and powerful African Americans creating wealth for the rest of the community doesn't, and never did, work.
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The Mitch McConnell VA Scandal
The Republican Chaos Strategy is working like a charm, and now the GOP is trying to make everyone forget who the real villains are when it comes to denying …
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Ruling Class Racketeers
Sylvia Mathews Burwell is a dream come true from neoliberal heaven (or more aptly, hell) for the elites controlling both sides of the Money Party.