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The Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes Taught These Indian Villagers
Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects - and to help people in remote Indian villages understand this, one filmmaker brought them to the West. Here's what they thought …
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William Rivers Pitt | The Fundraising Message That Ate America
We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.
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Chris Hedges | The Sparks of Rebellion
Chris Hedges: As the country continues to suffer from the abuse of the ruling class, the impending revolution will be determined not by the urban poor, but the sinking …
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The Incarceration of Consciousness
The real oppression is that which is heaped on them by the upper class, the profound burden which has been shared by the vast majority of humankind throughout history: …
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The “Implacable” War Against Migrants
Looking at the ways migration has affected other countries, it is clear that US exceptionalism has no basis in fact. Why, then, is the debate over this country's immigration …
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A Tale of a Whale
Gabriella Cowperthwaite 's documentary
Matt Taibbi on How Wall Street Hedge Funds Are Looting the Pension Funds of Public Workers
In his latest article for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi reports that Wall Street firms are now making millions in profits off of public pension funds nationwide.
Federal Contractors Employ More Low-Wage Workers Than Walmart and McDonald’s Combined, While Paying Top Execs. $24 Billion
Workers and legislators demand President Obama sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractor employees.
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Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at the UN
There is a shocking inconsistency with some of the
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How 401(k)s Rewarded the Rich and Turned the Rest of Us into Big Losers
In 2007, the financial crisis destroyed Americau2019s retirement fantasy.