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To Solve State Budget Woes, Chop From the Top (2)
If there is a silver lining in California Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget proposal, it is the recognition that we cannot realign state services down to county and local …

Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who “Contributes” to Public Workers’ Pensions?
When it comes to improving public understanding of tax policy, nothing has been more troubling than the deeply flawed coverage of the Wisconsin state employees' fight over collective bargaining. …

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Why the Towery File Matters: Illegal Surveillance in Washington State
Here, in the Pacific Northwest, the latest in a long line of First Amendment abuses by local police has fanned concerns about government spying. Domestic surveillance of peaceful activism …

Michael Moore: Acknowledging Working People (Video)
More GRITtv "You essentially entered into a contract with the corporate clsss—if you work hard, you will be rewarded. Now it's you work hard, the company prospers, …

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Qaddafi Loyalists Launch Attack on Oil Center in Libya’s East
Opposition fighters celebrate in the back of a truck after a battle against supporters of Libya's leader, Col. Moammar Qaddafi, in Brega, Libya on March 2, 2011. (Photo: Tyler …

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The Health Economy – The Alternative to Federal Government Shutdown
Editor's Note: the author's book The Health Economy was introduced to Culture Change readers on Nov. 17, 2010, but it is now in a new e-book edition. The Health Economy …

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Ireland’s Road To Ruin … and Ours
The “Celtic Tiger” — the Irish economy — has clawed its way back from near extinction, according to the Heritage Foundation. The irony is that the things that Heritage …

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America’s Radical “Conservatism“
Editor’s Note: Since Ronald Reagan stepped onto the national political stage in the 1970s, American “conservatism” has operated in an increasingly radical, anti-empirical and paranoid style, putting the social …

Bill McKibben | My Life as a Communist
My life as a communist actually began without me knowing it, on Friday evening, when Glenn Beck spent his program explaining about a “communistic” conspiracy that included 10 groups …