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Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill to Help Guarantee Fair Pay for Women
Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which …
Made in Brazil: Confronting Child Labor
“To force a child to work is to steal the future of that child” - Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva While Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula …
Neuromarketing and 21st Century Politics
One of the greatest threats to democracy in the 21st Century is the profound ability for marketing to influence human behavior. How can we claim that politicians are elected …
The US Elections: Outrage, Misguided
The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats are in power, …
Killing the Poor Instead of Taxing the Wealthy in Arizona
If you happen to be sick and poor and are among the 98 people in Arizona who are awaiting state-funded organ transplants, you've just been handed a death sentence. …
Where’s the Growth Supposed to Come From?
Part of a Triple Crisis series on the Nov. 11-12 G-20 meetings.
The Debt Problems of the European Periphery
Last week's renewed anxiety over bond market collapse in Europe's periphery should come as no surprise. Greece's EU/IMF program heaps more public debt onto a nation that is already …
Seven Ways to Transform Banking
Are you as outraged as I am by the Wall Street bankers with their fat bonuses, shoddy mortgages, and financial shenanigans? With the gridlock in Washington, I wanted to …
How Stuxnet Cyber Weapon Targeted Iran Nuclear Plant
Stuxnet, the world's first known “cyber missile,” was designed to sabotage special power supplies used almost exclusively in nuclear fuel-refining centrifuge systems, researchers studying its code have revealed. The …
New Report Reveals Health Insurance Industry Pumped $86 Million Into the US Chamber to Kill Reform
This morning, Bloomberg reporter Drew Armstrong broke an incredible story revealing that health insurance companies, like UnitedHealth and CIGNA, funneled $86.2 million into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in …