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Austerity, Adjustment and Social Genocide: Political Language and the European Debt Crisis
Political language functions through euphemism, by employing soft-sounding or simply meaningless words to describe otherwise monstrous and vicious policies and objectives.
How Will the 99% Deal With 70 Million Psychopaths?
Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath?
Syrian Helicopters Fire on Aleppo as Army Prepares for Possible Assault
Syrian Army helicopters fired on neighborhoods in Aleppo on Friday morning, activists said, as the army readied assault troops and armored columns for a possible invasion of the city, …
Con Ed Workers Back on the Job; Company Maintains Hard Line
It is not clear what effect the stepped up political pressure, or the return to work, will have on negotiations.
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Police Violence, Racialized Indifference and a Hunger for Justice in Anaheim
These latest deaths bring the total number of Anaheim officer-involved shootings in 2012 to six.
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Global Warming
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Dressage
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The Man Who Invented “Too Big to Fail” Banks Finally Recants – Will Obama or Romney Follow?
If any single person is responsible for Wall Street banks becoming too big to fail itu2019s Sandy Weill.
Iraq: After the Americans
Fault Lines travels across Iraq to take the pulse of a country and its people after nine years of occupation.
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“Voluntary” Work Program Run in Private Detention Centers Pays Detained Immigrants $1 a Day
In private prisons around the country, immigrants languishing in detention centers are being put to work by profit-making companies like the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for far below …