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Japan Gets Tough
To almost everyoneu2019s surprise, Japan u2014 Japan! u2014 has emerged as the advanced country most willing to break with austerian orthodoxy and try a combination of aggressive monetary and …
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How Electric Cars Save Human Lives
Since cars are a major burner of fossil fuels, one of the actions that we should take right now is to invest more in cleaner and greener automobile technology.
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The GOP’s Black Friends Need More Black Friends
The Republican Party knows it cannot continue to compete nationally if it remains the party of old white men.
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Climate Policies Must Break Free from Big Oil
It seems an odd time for environment policy wonks to throw a party. The level of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is higher than it has been in …
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Blood Ties, Nepotism and Democracy
From the Murdochs to the monarchy, blood ties remain important in our supposedly meritocratic society. Is this the natural order of things - essential for a cohesive culture? Or …
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Big Oil’s War on the Sun
Remember “Peak Oil?” Neither does anyone else. That’s because the operational theory of why, at the turn of the century, Big Oil tightened its grip on the political system and used …
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London’s Violent Spectacle: What is to be Gained by Calling it Terror?
There is nothing to be gained by labeling Wednesday's brutal attack in London.
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The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
The crimes of the modern banking industry can be compared to the rule of mafia mobs of the 1920s.
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The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
Thanks to the giant transnational corporations that own them, mainstream media outlets tailor their programming to appease their corporate backers.
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The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers’ Rights
While the GOP in Congress blocks National Labor Relations Board nominees, thereby incapacitating the agency, the DC Circuit Court ruling absolving employers from posting the rule of the land …