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Global Power Project: Banking on Influence With Bank of America
Bank of America is an influential institution in the media, military industrial complex, think tanks, chemical companies and government circles.
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Economy of the Squeegee: Carwasheros Organizing Across the Country
Can the carwasheros, who are organizing across the country, lead the next wave of alt-labor insurgency? A conversation with Adam Kader of ARISE Chicago.
How to Be a Rogue Superpower
The response to Edward Snowden by the US is unprecedented: an u201cinternational manhuntu201d (or more politely but less accurately, u201ca diplomatic full court pressu201d).
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Why Aren’t Americans Fighting Back?
They don't know who they are or what they're fighting for nor whom or what they are fighting against.
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Mandela’s Greatness May Be Assured – But Not His Legacy
When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at …
Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: A New Economy for Present Times
Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar.
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Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership
The commitment to charter schools is a coward's way out of facing reality and doing something.
Economic Update: Capitalism’s Social Costs
Updates on Obamacare's
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“Pure” Capitalism Is Pure Fantasy
Call it “crony, gangster, casino” or “monopoly” capitalism, its supposedly objectionable features - big government, monopolies, the Federal Reserve, welfare, taxation and labor unions - are intrinsic to any …
Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World
Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the worldu2019s third-largest company in market value.