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The Public Intellectual: Sophia A. McClennen
Sophia A. McClennen Is There a Way to Be Good Again? How to Be a Man After the Penn State Pedophilia Scandal Monday 28 November 2011 by: Sophia A. …
Seven Surveys Make A Trend For Fox And Viewers
The release yesterday of yet another survey indicating the more you watch Fox News the less they know, has once again shone a spotlight on one of the unique …
Democracy or Plutocracy? A Chart
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Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power
How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from “the outrage phase” to the “hope phase,” and imagine a new economic model? In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we …
Curiosity Launch: Fukushima for Everyone?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends in coming days to launch a rover to be deployed on Mars fueled with 10.6 pounds of plutonium. If there is …
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Giving Thanks to Our Public Servants
(Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) Having served in the military for twenty years and having police officers and other civil servants in my family and among my …
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This Changes Everything: How the 99% Woke Up
Something happened in September 2011 so unexpected that no politician or pundit saw it coming. Inspired by the Arab Spring and uprisings in Europe, sparked by a …
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Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill …
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A Country of Inmates
Washington - One area where the United States indisputably leads the world is incarceration. The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, almost one in every …
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Companies Lay Off Workers While Spending Billions on Share Buybacks to Enrich Executives
Even as Republicans and CEOs of major companies complain that taxes are stifling job creation, corporations have been sitting on trillions of dollars in cash reserves, at some of …