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Corporate Bombs Demand Justice Too
More GRITtv President Barack Obama said Sunday that his administration and law enforcement officials are investigating who is responsible for a bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square …

Things Fall Apart
“Things fall apart,” William Butler Yeats wrote. "The center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence …

From Vietnam to Iran and the March of Either/Or Thinking
On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh, the most important and popular leader in the French colony of Indochina, announced the creation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. After …

Invest in Women to Halve Africa’s Hunger
Nairobi, Kenya - Over 200 million additional people have been pushed into hunger in the past three years as a result of the food and financial crises. The U.N. …

Greece Crisis Fallout: Will Greeks Step Up Riots Over Austerity Measures?
Greece’s eurozone partners and the IMF this weekend agreed to a $146 billion bailout to stem the Greece crisis. But in return, the country’s leaders have been forced to …

Robert Reich | The Rebirth of Regulation
What do oil giant BP, the mining company Massey Energy, and Goldman Sachs have in common? They're all big firms involved in massive plunder. BP's oil spill is already …

Congress, Where 44 Percent Are Millionaires, Freezes Pay
Washington - Facing election-year pressure to keep a lid on their salaries, lawmakers in Congress have agreed quietly not to increase their pay next year. As a result, most …

On a Border Near Arizona: How Police Can Protect Immigrant Women
As the Arizona governor tries to push back criticism of the new immigration law, other Southwest communities concentrate on fighting actual criminal behavior. The author describes a case in …

The Costs of the Military-Industrial Complex
In 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave his now famous farewell speech about the military industrial complex. He said we must never let the weight of the disastrous rise of …

Fourteen Ways a 90 Percent Top Tax Rate Fixes Our Economy and Our Country
A return to Eisenhower-era, 90 percent top tax rates helps fix our economy in several ways: 1) It makes it take longer to end up with a fortune. In …