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Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The No BS Info on Japan’s Disastrous Nuclear Operators
I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. I don't …
Michigan’s GOP Governor Slashes Corporate Tax Rate by 86 Percent, Hikes Taxes for Working Poor
As we’ve been documenting, several conservative governors have proposed placing the brunt of deficit reduction onto the backs of their state’s public employees, students, and middle-class taxpayers, while simultaneously …
No Ads From Union Busters
It’s clear that mega-business stands for one thing: profit by any means necessary - even if that means corrupting our public institutions, destroying our unions and controlling our media. …
What’s Next for Wisconsin?
Wisconsin Republicans copped to the fact Wednesday that their political standoff with the rest of the state was really about smashing unions, not closing the state’s budget gap. Twenty-four …
NPR Scandal Reversal: The Raw Footage Shows Something Else
This just in…. When I wrote a piece the other day about a scandal rocking National Public Radio over “inappropriate” comments NPR fundraising executives make on edited hidden-camera footage, …
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
Many of the US Supreme Court's most important decisions upholding free speech involve the most hateful speech imaginable, testing our national commitment to the First Amendment. Five years …
Philanthro-Feudalism Is the Future!
More GRITtv China's new economic plan is a relic of the past. It focuses on raising standards of living. How quaint!
Japan Facing Biggest Catastrophe Since Dawn of Nuclear Age
Japan remains in a state of emergency three days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the country. An estimated 10,000 people have died, and Japan is facing the …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The High Cost of a Broken Metaphor
Washington - “We're broke.” You can practically break a search engine if you start looking around the Internet for those words. They're used repeatedly with reference to our local, …
Rabbi Michael Lerner: A Quarter Century Devoted to Repairing the World
Political activist, editor of Tikkun - the progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California - and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco, Michael Lerner spoke with …