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Froma Harrop | Electrify the Roads
My magic wand is on the fritz, otherwise we'd have a big, new federal program to free America from its dependence on oil. Like other environmentalists, I'm sad that …
Senate Republicans Nix Job Bill
It looks as if election-year strategies are trumping any actual problem-solving by Republican lawmakers. In the midst of one of the worst unemployment crises in U.S. history, Senate Republicans …
Eugene Robinson | All Shook Up for BP
Washington - Joe Barton is not alone. The Texas congressman's lavish sympathy for BP — which he sees not as perpetrator of a preventable disaster but as victim of …
Prolonging the Gaza Failure
The recent Israeli raid on the flotilla bringing aid to Gaza — which resulted in the deaths of nine civilians, more injuries, and near-global condemnation for Israel's actions — …
On Your Marx: Neoliberalism on the Rocks
The first intellectual consequence of the economic crisis was to undermine neoliberalism—or the belief in the sufficiency of markets to secure human welfare—as the age’s default ideology. The second …
McChrystal Recalled to Washington Over Rolling Stone Article
Kabul - The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan was recalled to Washington on Tuesday after he was forced to make a “sincerest apology” over a magazine article in …
“Grapes of Wrath” Revisited
The title sounds a bit dated and strange. But the book’s message could scarcely be more contemporary.
Lawrence S. Wittner | BP’s Other Gifts to America – and to the World
The offshore oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico brought to us by BP has overshadowed its central role over the past century in fostering some other disastrous …
On Heels of Diebold/Premier Purchase, Canadian Firm Also Acquires Sequoia, Lies About Chavez-Ties in Announcement
“Intellectual Property” of voting systems still owned by firm linked to Venezuelan President, despite press statement to the contrary PLUS: The election official/e-voting company revolving "oversight"door continues to turn...
Corporate Gas Drilling Buries Indonesian Town in Methane Mud (Video)
Java - A City Swallowed by Mud