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Free Trade or Democracy, Can’t Have Both
Recent stories about the conditions of Apple's contractors in China have opened many people's eyes about where our jobs, factories, industries and economy have been going, and why. The …
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Was Occupy’s “Shut Down the Corporations” Action a Success?
The Occupy movement's national day of action — “Shut Down the Corporations” — is a difficult action to assess. Was the action a success or a failure? The first …
Fired Up! A Call to Boycott “Repulsive, Misogynistic” Limbaugh and His Sponsors
Rush Limbaugh is a repulsive misogynistic blowhard. By now, no one should expect more than neanderthal grunts from him. But, his radio program is owned by a syndicator, premiere, …
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Mass Burnings of Korans at Bagram Fuel Anti-Americanism
(Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) As the streets of Afghanistan ring out with cries of anti-American outrage, one is compelled to pause and reflect …
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Labor’s Fight Is Our Fight
Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight. The …
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Are Bankers Capitalists?
The phrase “Wall Street” is evocative in American culture. For generations, it has referred to the showcase of American capitalism: our financial services system that ensured the efficient use …
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Witnessing the Death of the Republican Party
A week ago, Rick Santorum looked as though he might give Mitt Romney a thrashing in the Michigan primary, which would have unleashed a wave of grim assessments of …
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Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution
Here’s the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the 4th quarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That’s respectable – although still …
Moyers & Campbell on Star Wars’ Mythological Influences
As public television stations around the country rebroadcast The Power of Myth — Bill Moyers’ groundbreaking conversations with mythologist Joseph Campbell — Moyers shares this compelling clip which draws …
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The Ayatollah Is Right About One Thing: Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful
Given my own deep prejudice toward religious zealotry, it has not been difficult for me to accept the conventional American view that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme theocratic ruler …