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There Are Co-Op Options for Health Care, but Major Insurers Don’t Want You To Know
A Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan, or Co-Op, is a non-profit health insurer designed to offer individuals and small businesses more affordable, consumer-friendly health insurance options. However, many consumers …
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FCC Suppressed Its Own Reports on Corporate Media Consolidation
The United States is currently ranked 46th on the World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders. As a journalist in this country, I can't rest easy knowing that …
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Three Years Later: Who Is Responsible?
Nuclear power engineer Arnie Gunderson and journalist Chiho Kaneko discuss a lawsuit to hold General Electric and other reactor manufacturing companies responsible and the Japanese public's attitude toward nuclear …
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By the Way, Your Home Is on Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis
Right now, you can think of the way we're living as an office tower and the fossil fuel economy as a plane crashing into it in very, very, very …
Mr. and Mrs. Labor-Management: Struggling to Make Their Marriage Work
My name is Labor and I married Mr. Management in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Matt Stoller: Big Oil Hooked Americans on Credit Cards
The credit card industry gets short shrift when it comes to history.
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Dahr Jamail | New Mexico: Where Polluting Groundwater Is Legal
New Mexico's governor has given the copper industry carte blanche to pollute what is left of the state's groundwater.
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America’s “Bloodless” Civil War
In the US we have our own ongoing civil war between govenment and rebels - supported by rich warlords - who are armed but, so far, have only targeted …
Politics: Another Way To Waste Shareholder Money
In the wake of Citizens United, there is plenty of discussion of how campaign finance law might be changed to limit political participation by corporations.
How the Gun Lobby Became a Threat to Public Safety
Just a generation ago, the NRA was a nonpartisan and relatively non-ideological organization that advocated for responsible and safe gun ownership in addition to defending gun rights.