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How to Create a Depression
Cambridge - European political leaders may be about to agree to a fiscal plan which, if implemented, could push Europe into a major depression. To understand why, it is …
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Labor and Environment: Next Steps for Dialogue
What does the future hold for the relationship between environmentalism and organized labor? Judging from the highly-publicized controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline, America might appear to be entering …
Utah Doctors Join the Occupy Movement
Open pit copper mine run by London-based mining conglomerate Rio Tinto/Kennecott in Bingham Canyon, Utah. It is the world's largest open-pit mine and has created the world's largest …
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The FBI Spied on Me and Then Lied About It
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: zota, kalavinka) Five years ago, I joined a group of leaders of the Southern California Muslim community in an attempt to find …
Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Flag-Waving Politicians Think
Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so. Throughout the scramble for …
Working and Poor in the USA
"Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied …
Occupy Innovation: Neither the Military Nor the Market Does
Actress Anne Hathaway marches with demonstrators on the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Elana Levin) If the US fought for the post-carbon economy the way …
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Remembering Etta James
(Photo: John K. Addis / Wikimedia) My encounter with the music of Etta James constituted something of a rite of passage. I was a white, working-class kid …
David Stockman on Crony Capitalism
TRANSCRIPT: BILL MOYERS: Welcome. This week we’re continuing our exploration of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. …
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BREAKING: Newt Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary
Newt Gingrich upset GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in South Carolina tonight, beating him by what will likely be a comfortable margin in the the state’s Republican presidential primary. …