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CEOs Being Paid for Poor Performance
Over the past two decades, the myth of CEOs earning their runaway pay packages has grown into the ultimate scam.
Hope in a Time of Permanent War
Hope is a subversive, defiant practice that resists ideas that pose a threat to democracy.
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Eight Arguments Against Going to War With Syria
US military action against Syria would be illegal, strategically counterproductive, destructive and deeply unpopular.
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Building the Commons as an Antidote to the Predatory Market Economy
We must mobilize to save the commons and build the foundation for a world in which people work together.
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Response to Syria a Duplicitous Affair
Caution about war against Syria is more than warranted by knowledge of the history of US interventions in other countries' domestic quarrels.
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Other Worlds’ Beverly Bell Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
Beverly Bell: Defining our community as social movements, the greatest challenge they articulate is growing control by transnational capital over everything, from the marketing of air (through carbon trading) …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Living in Poverty Affects More Than a Person’s Physical Health, and More
In today's On the News segment:President Obama announced that he will ask Congress for authorization for a military strike in Syria; Harvard scientists found that the constant strain of …
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We Must Restore Democracy in Our Workplaces
Small-d democracy in our small-r republic has been collapsing for the last 30 years. We are rapidly reversing 300 years of progress.
And Then There Was One: Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
Only in Hollywood fantasies about evil super-enemies was u201cworld dominationu201d by a single power imaginable. No wonder that, more than two decades into our one-superpower present, we still …
Married to Organized Labor
Union organizers, like Rose Schneiderman, not only understood the vital importance of organizing labor in challenging increasing economic disparity, but they did so in an era of union-corporate wars. …