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“Debt Crisis:” The Myth Behind the Myth
While the two major parties plot strategy for the next battle in the federal debt-reduction war, another war rages among economists over the question, "Is debt really the federal …
The TRUTH About The Secret Black Box Big Banks Use To Manipulate Mortgages
The banks use something called MERS in order to destroy local land records, avoid taxes, and foreclose on our homes. The truth is slowly coming out about it and …
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ALEC, Meat/Poultry Industries, State Bills Target Farm Animal Abuse Videos Revealing Calves Skinned Alive, Cows Suffocated
My brother just emailed me a link from Seattlepi.com that made my stomach turn. Then again, animal cruelty, like all torture, always does, but the abuses in this story …
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On Black Women Domestic Workers
My presentation last week on the great intellectual and educator Anna Julia Cooper for Women's History Month stimulated some wonderful responses. Among them was a letter from Katherine van …
David Brooks Jumps the Shark
David Brooks jumped the shark in his March 18 New York Times column, when he attacked the only budget proposed in Congress this year that would rapidly improve the …
Men Who Kick Down Doors: Tyrants at Home and Abroad
While we focus on the war being fought overseas, there is an equally brutal battle being fought behind the closed doors of American homes.
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Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
Is Cyprus in Our Future?: The Plague of Wall Street Banking
“Europe is showing us what happens when government fails to confront the big banks u2013 the people pay and the economy collapses into depression,” writes Zeese and Flowers.
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Privatization Limits Access to Public Information
As private companies buy up projects in the public sector, transparency becomes a thing of the past.
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The Final Lie of the Iraq War
More people believe that invading Iraq was right today than in 2003. What do these numbers say about the integrity of the American people.