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Pro Football’s Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Out of the 31 owners of NFL teams, seventeen - more than half - are billionaires.
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction From Derivatives
Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system.
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Is Broad Opposition to War on Syria an Opportunity to End American Empire Responsibly?
Are we witnessing the beginning of a transformation of US foreign policy? With groundswell public opposition to a war with Syria, Flowers and Zeese see such signs and recommend …
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower: How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
Dear Whistleblower, I donu2019t know who you are or what you do or how old you may be. I just know that you exist somewhere in our future …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Twelve People Killed in Mass Shooting at Navy Yard Complex, and More
On Monday, 12 people were killed in a mass shooting in our nation's capital, and at least 8 others were injured, and more.
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The Left Pushes Back
We're witnessing a three-act play in America, and it's called “The Great Rejection of the Reagan Revolution.”
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Chomsky: “The Mafia Doctrine,” or the Crucial Issue for the US in Syria Is Credibility
The US is probably more concerned about maintaining hegemony than the fate of Syrian civilians.
Andrew Bacevich on “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country”
Andrew Bacevich looks at the growing gulf between Americau2019s soldiers and the society that sends them off to war.
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NSA: An “Obsessional” Technocracy?
Fifty years ago Erich Fromm warned of an unchallenged dogma of technocracy: u201csomething ought to be done because it is technically possible to do it.u201d