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Public Citizen Report Reveals Dents, Holes in Keystone XL Southern Half Weeks Before Planned Startup
Public Citizen has released a chilling report revealing that the 485-mile KXL southern line is plagued by dents, faulty welding, exterior damage that was patched up poorly and misshapen …
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Lean In or Stand Up?
Things worked out great for Sandbergu2019s friendu2014she took the job and her husband learned to buy groceries. Things didnu2019t work out so well for the Newark schools.
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The Oliver Stone Interview, Part II: JFK
When I chatted with Stone about it recently, he betrayed no false modesty on the subject. u201cJFK was staggeringly complex and beautiful.
Greg Palast: Rand Paul’s Zombie-nomics Versus Janet Yellen
Will Senator Rand Paul, misunderstanding the voices of the undead, block the appointment of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board?
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William Rivers Pitt: Please Don’t Take the “2016” Bait
Midterm elections are by orders of magnitude more important than presidential elections on every meaningful level, and when they get ignored, we get the kind of congressional disaster zone …
How One State Protects Taxpayers From Privatization Pitfalls
Arguments for privatization too often hide its true costs.
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Paul Krugman | Alan Greenspan, Doing His Best to Make Things Worse
Paul Krugman: Mr. Greenspan isn't just being a bad economist, he's being a bad person, refusing to accept responsibility for his errors in and out of office. And he's …
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Health Care in the US as Seen From Down Under: “Mens Sana in Insanus Patriae“
Aussies' Medicare treats health care as a human right, offering better outcomes than the United States for much less cost, and insurers even offer plans for pets that many …
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GMOs for Profit: The Missing Context of Industrial Agriculture
GMOs lead to corporate control over the food system.
Economic Update: “There Is No Recovery … and the Policy Is Not Working”
Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update on Janet Yellen, minimum wages, Twitter, the Cuba trade embargo, and more.