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China’s Global Shopping Spree: Is the World’s Future Resource Map Tilting East?
Think of it as a tale of two countries. When it comes to procuring the resources that make industrial societies run, China is now the shopaholic of planet Earth, …
Orange Is the New Black: A Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman's memoir reveals how prison changed her life, and why warehousing people who commit crimes is such a waste of human potential.
Living in a Land of Rising Right-Wing Hate
Northeast Jefferson County east of Birmingham, Alabama, has long been known as a white-flight suburb and home to a crowd of racist rednecks, mostly good old boys and gals …
Why You Need to Understand Political Psychology
Are you concerned about the future of our country? Do you want to find ways to revitalize democracy and set about the important work of solving our problems? Have …
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
The health care reform plan passed the US House of Representatives on March 21 with 219 votes in favor and 212 votes against. In this contest, not a single …
Carrying a Backpack of Sorrow … Soldiers on the Edge of Suicide
More of our young soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in our wars in the Middle East. The sad statistics are at the end of this …
Keith Olbermann: Predatory Banking Practices Interview With Rep. Barney Frank (Video)
Keith Olbermann discusses predatory banking practices and interviews Rep. Barney Frank on Countdown.
GRITtv: Banks Betting Against California?
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CIA Seeks to Influence Opinion on Wars
The CIA recommendations for influencing the European public into continuing their support for the mission in Afghanistan is receiving a lot of attention both in The Netherlands and beyond. …
Bill Moyers Journal | King’s Dream for Equality
Airtime: Friday, April 2, 2010, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here).