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NSA: An “Obsessional” Technocracy?
Fifty years ago Erich Fromm warned of an unchallenged dogma of technocracy: u201csomething ought to be done because it is technically possible to do it.u201d
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Cold War Euphemisms and Nightmares
Now that it appears another Cold War is brewing between the U.S. and Russia, I revisited how Baumeister believes perpetrators use euphemistic words and language.
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Successes, Challenges and Next Steps for Occupy
An organizer of Occupy Minneapolis reflects on the ‘audacious successes and frustrating shortcomings’ of the movement that signaled our transformation toward democracy and a new more egalitarian, sustainable world.
The Ultimate Loaded Question: What’s for Dinner?
The dinner table is where economics and class, education and upbringing, values and culture, all collide with oneu2019s time management skills and energy level.
Crises Today, Catastrophe Tomorrow – An Analysis (12 September 2013)
If we wanted to, we could begin to get global warming under control and manage its consequences for as long as it takes to minimize the threat.
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SAT Scores and Asian American Academic Achievements
According to The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, there's a disturbing trend in SAT scores in America. The score over all has fallen 20 points, dropping to …
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Memo to Washington: The Occupy Movement Lives
The Occupy Movement was the effect, not the cause, and it wonu2019t disappear because of the wishful thinking of a few.
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A Trumped-Up War on Welfare
One way the top 1 percent is trying to ease concerns about inequality is pretending that our safety net is too generous to the bottom 1 percent.
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4 Ways to Share the Season’s Harvest (and Make Friends Doing It)
Guerrilla grafting, crop mobs, and other ways to make the fruits of your labor go further.
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Longshore Union Got a Raw Deal from the AFL-CIO
On August 29, 2013, the 60,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced it was leaving the 13-million member AFL-CIO.