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If Bangladesh Can Hold Their Corporate Fatcats Accountable – Then So Can We!
So, how is it that Bangladesh, a third-world nation, can seize the assets of those responsible for the tragic factory collapse and bring them court in just 5 days, …
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JPMorgan Chase’s Record Highlights Doubts About Big Banks’ Devotion to Fighting Dirty Money Flows
The world's top banks work to cloak their elite client's actions in secrecy.
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Uncertainties Remain as FAA Integrates Drones into American Skies
Thousands of unmanned aircraft systems u2013 commonly known as drones u2013 could be buzzing around in U.S. airspace by 2015 because of a law passed last year, aiding in …
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Arts for the City: 80 Years of Public Art in San Francisco
Out this month is a new book telling the rich history of public art in San Francisco. Written by award-winning author, Susan Wels, the book is entitled Arts for …
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It Isn’t Partisan to Fight for Local Journalism
This week Free Press launched a campaign asking the Tribune Company not to sell its eight major daily newspapers to the Koch brothers, the billionaires notorious for funding a …
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Temple’s Story: What White Faculty Could Learn from Black Faculty
More than 400 students and community people joined black faculty to protest the racist and anti-Semitic behavior of the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University. …
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EM’s School Closing Game: Tragedy for Students, Community
The School board is in the dark; parents are angry, the community is under threat and students, many of them special needs, face loss. This is the newest round …
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Logic Deficit: Why Were Reinhart-Rogoff Ever Taken Seriously?
It's not just the arithmetic on debt-to-GDP ratios that tripped up RR; it was the basic logic of their argument.
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The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature: From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said
An excerpt from, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin Americau2019s most distinguished writers.
The US’s Narrow-Minded Anti-Terrorism Strategy: Blowback and the Cycle of Violence
As America's foreign policy continues to disenfranchise countries across the world, American suffer with the political