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BP’s Cleaning Only Skims the Surface
More GRITtv “Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less.” That's according …
Right Is Right, Wrong Is Discretionary
In the wake of the House Ethics Committee formerly charging Charles Rangel (D-NY) with thirteen ethics violations, another member of congress is poised to have an ethics trial in …
Flood Disaster Means Starting From Zero
Peshawar - “We swam the whole day to get hold of the elderly and women swept away by floodwaters,” recalled 27-year-old Shahid Ali of Charsadda district, one of the …
Property Rights and Public Accommodations
In the early sixties, the young black students in the South had had enough. Enough separate drinking fountains, enough all-night drives because no motel would provide a room, and …
How Will Future Economists View Today
Progressives have the opportunity to turn the tides in favor of the middle class, if they only have the guts to grasp it. When we observe today’s wounded economy, …
In Mexico, Poisonous Pesticides on the Doorstep
Zucar de Matamoros, Mexico - “People want to get rid of the factory. It has to go. There's already been an accident,” a taxi driver said on the drive …
GOP Kills Health Care for 9/11 Workers, Rails at “Ground Zero Mosque“
Last Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) launched into a righteous tirade against the GOP's attempts to derail a health care package for 9/11 first responders. His House floor antics …
News in Brief: Man Who Shot and Killed Nine, Including Self, Faced Racial Harassment at Work, and More
Democracy Now! reports a man who was bullied, and the only African-American at his workplace in Connecticut, shot and killed nine people including himself in a gun-fire attack on …
Fighting Back Against the Banksters
Oh, them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government's special …
Kenya Referendum: Voters Cast Ballots, Tensions High
Today's historic Kenya referendum over whether to back a new Constitution sparks fresh memories of the ethnic clashes that killed more than 1,300 people in the wake of the …