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To Render Profits Secure, Tokyo Electric Power Cut Corners
Translated Wednesday 16 March 2011, by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Henry Crapo. Profit at any price. This could be the motto of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the multinational …
Beyond Business-as-Usual: Climate Protection Strategy in the 2010s
[Author's note: With the defeat of US climate legislation, the stalling of international climate negotiations, and the rise of tea party climate denialism, is climate protection doomed? This piece …
Europe’s Austerity: Like Something Out of the Brothers Grimm
In the Greek town of Aphidal, people have stopped paying road fees. In Athens, bus and metro riders are refusing to cough up the price of a ticket. On …
In Proposed Mortgage Fraud Settlement, a Gift to Big Banks
Lurking in a proposed mortgage fraud settlement with the state attorneys general is a clause that could be worth billions for the big banks.
Totalitarian Democracy
What follows is clearly not a thoroughly articulated perspective, but a call to others to present their own understanding of the situation we face. Those of us who …
Saying No to the Nuclear Option
Faced with the nuclear crisis in Japan, governments around the world are confronting the vulnerabilities of their nuclear energy programs. And while some European countries, such as Germany and …
Common Cause Scrutinizes Supreme Court Justices Scalia’s and Thomas’s Travel Records
Common Cause intensified its scrutiny of the U.S. Supreme Court today, asking the Court's Clerk and the Supreme Court Police to produce copies of the travel records of two …
David Sirota | Mad Scientists in the Laboratories of Democracy
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said that states are the “laboratories of democracy.” Oft repeated over time, the aphorism has helped impart legitimacy to the rough and tumble …
Alexander Cockburn | Here, on the Other Side of the Ring of Fire
Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of deepening catastrophe at Fukushima 1, speed to the pharmacy to buy iodine and ask, “It's happened there; can it happen here?” Along …
The Fire Last Time
Labor, big business, and the forgotten lessons of a disaster that happened 100 years ago this month. Americans tend to be fascinated by what’s new and to be …