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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 …
GOP Campaign Against Birth Control Officially Too Crazy for Scaife
We all have our limits. The GOP's crusade against Planned Parenthood is officially too crazy for right-wing philanthropist and media baron Richard Mellon Scaife. In a recent …
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 …
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In Libya, Diplomacy Could Save Lives and the World Economy
A funeral procession in Ajdabiya, Libya, on Thursday, March 3, 2011, is held for opposition fighters killed the day before in nearby Brega. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New …