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How Disney Instills Greed and Consumerism – Starting at Three Months
It doesn't matter how enjoyable the products - there is something bigger beneath the family-friendly exterior.
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Violence, Interrupted
At the heart of Gandhi’s revolution was a new kind of hero: brave, but also compassionate; bold, but also empathetic; powerful, but also unarmed. For millennia, traditional heroism had …
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Can Out-of-Control Local News Kill People?
(Image: Createspace) Determined to trump its closest competitor in the ratings game, a local Philadelphia television news station produces an "exclusive" segment that shows surveillance video of …
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Better This World: the Imaginary Terrorists
“We had to absolutely prepare for a catastrophic terrorism incident,” says an FBI Special Agent involved in planning security for the 2008 Republican Convention, “and the planning ideology that …
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Zinn’s “on Race” Traces Violence, Victories in Civil Rights Movement
"on Race" by Howard Zinn, Introduction by Cornel West Seven Stories Press, 2011, $14.95 paperback, 236 pages Princeton professor Cornell West's tribute to the late …
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The People’s Rogue: FDR vs. the Nine Old Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Photo: Wikimedia) The president must have been savoring that afternoon of December 26, 1936. Tea was served, and the president entertained his attorney general …
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“Orwell Rolls in His Grave“
(Image: Sag Harbor-Basement Pictures) As a member in good standing of the media, I watched "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" with a wince and a feeling of …
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Film Chronicles American Jews Caught Between Two Worlds
(Photo: Jens Schott Knudsen / Flickr) "Between Two Worlds" Produced and directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman Edited by Kenji Yamamoto …
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Grassroots Solutions to American Crises: From Collapse to Action
(Image: PM Press/Estreito Meios Productions) Reviewed: "Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action" A Documentary Film by Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox. Published by PM Press/Estreito …
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Refugees’ Descendants in Southeast Asia Prove Stateless Society Is Possible
(Image: Yale University Press) The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Yale University Press, 2009