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“Mad Max: Fury Road” Is a Resource-Conscious Blockbuster for Our Time
Who ruined Mad Max's world? The new film isn't afraid to lay blame - and suggest a way forward.
NPR Tries to Scare People About the Deficit
Billionaire Peter Peterson is spending lots of money to get people to worry about the debt.
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Bill Moyers: The Challenge of Journalism Is to Survive in the Pressure Cooker of Plutocracy
What happens to a society fed a diet of rushed, re-purposed, thinly reported “content?”
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Tony Judt: The Best Man Among Us
The moral center in Judt's work is the product perhaps of a weary knowledge of the wickedness of which humanity is capable.
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Revelations From Outer Space
It is not often that Hollywood supplies new data to scientists that provide insights and lead to new breakthroughs, writes Priyamvada Natarajan in this cultural critique.
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Global Internet Activists Give Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Internet.org
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for world domination is in trouble.
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Don’t Grade Justice on a Warped Curve: Assessing the Case of Jeffrey Sterling
The only fair sentence for Sterling would have been no sentence at all.
How the US Treasury Department Promotes Israel’s Propaganda Lines
Through a misleading press release, the US Treasury Department pushed the Israeli propaganda line about worldwide Hezbollah terrorist cells - this time in Nigeria.
Christian Parenti on Climate Change, Militarism, Neoliberalism and the State
The author talks about environmental crises and neoliberal economic policies sparking violence in a landscape littered with guns.
CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Speaks Out Upon Sentencing to 3.5 Years in Prison
Since he was indicted four years ago, Jeffrey Sterling's voice has never been heard by the public, but that changes today.