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US Commission on Civil Rights to Investigate “Stand Your Ground” Laws for Racial Bias
(Photo: Project 404)The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced it will launch an inquiry into so-called “Stand Your Ground” legislation for racial bias. The laws, which gained notoriety after …
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Facebook’s Long-Term Problem
Facebook went public a week ago, to great embarrassment. NASDAQ creaked under the strain and, more important, the price dropped from an offer price of $38 to as low …
In Illinois, There Is No Budget Crisis: There Is a Regressive Taxation Crisis
Sad to say, nothing they're doing or talking about in the General Assembly will have a significant impact on the state's chronic budget crisis. Not draconian Medicaid cuts, not …
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With Energy Efficiency, We All Win
Just as hybrid cars are using advanced engineering to cut gasoline bills, technology can cut the cost of heating, cooling and lighting America's buildings. A hybrid car's better mileage …
Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me – and My Tribe
For four years, Heather Purser fought quietly but persistently for the right to get married. Then last summer, she captured the attention of state politicians and national media when …
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Bias in Campaign Spending Makes Business Influence Look Smaller Than It Really Is
Reporting campaign finance can be difficult because much of the action is obscured. Journalists have to rely on fairly unreliable government disclosure websites, many of which only report certain …
Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes In
One could be forgiven for thinking thereu2019s anything honorable or honest about Colin Powell. For more than two decades now the Washington media has portrayed the former Secretary of …
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Spain to Accept Rescue From Europe for Its Ailing Banks
Responding to increasingly urgent calls from across Europe and the United States, Spain on Saturday agreed to accept a bailout for its cash-starved banks as European finance ministers offered …
Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism
The postmodern critique of neoliberalism is not merely a negative account of neoclassical assumptions or simply an updating of economics according to the debates of the 1980s and after. …
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The School of the Americas, the CIA and the US-Condoned Cancer of Torture Continue to Spread in Latin America, Including Mexico
Harbury's request was simple: she wanted the State Department or CIA to tell her what had happened to her husband. But both agencies didn't acknowledge they knew of his …