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Op-Ed
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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 …
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Afghanistan War May End by 2024…Maybe
Hamid Karzai has let the Pentagon's cat out of the bag - to the displeasure of the Obama Administration. The Afghan president revealed inside information about President Obama's war …
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Reasoning with and Resisting Arne Duncan’s Education Reform Agenda: Scribbling Lines in the Sand
There are times when a line in the sand can shift the course of a life – or of history. At other times a line in the sand may …
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Global Capital and the Nation State
At a time when you'd expect nations to band together to gain bargaining power against global capital, the opposite is occurring: xenophobia is breaking out all over.
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Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
Operating a workplace democracy in the current business world isn't easy, but co-ops are showing the way.
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto’s Monopolistic Greed
As more people realize the struggle against Monsanto is one for human survival, a movement is building.
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The Federal Government Has Forgotten Freedom of the Press
Slowly but surely, our government is infringing upon the rights of the media, and eating away at freedom of the press.