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Economic Update: “False Choices and Bad Decisions”
Updates on Chinese economy's response to global crisis, $6.6 billion legal deal among banks, credit card companies and retailers, and food stamp cuts threatened.
Religious and Free-Market Fundamentalism Have More in Common Than Their Fans in the Tea Party
Because fundamentalists are ideologically driven, they tend to reject basic facts that do not comport with their ideology.
“Seconds Away From Midnight”: US Nuclear Missile Pioneers on Okinawa Break 50-Year Silence on a Hidden Nuclear Crisis of 1962
Six months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, however, a parallel drama had played out on the other side of the world as the U.S. secretly brought near-identical missiles …
Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media?
That working people are chronically underrepresented in the media - even in times of economic downturn - is a sad reality readily apparent to anyone who has surveyed the …
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Why Iceland Is a Success Story
Paul Krugman: Weu2019re talking about two economies that suffered severe, Depression-level slumps, and have since made up some but not all of the lost ground. You could, by the …
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The Problem Isn’t Outsourcing. It’s that the Prosperity of Big Business Has Become Disconnected From the Well-Being of Most Americans
The American economy has moved way beyond outsourcing abroad or even u201cin-sourcing.u201d Most big companies headquartered in America donu2019t send jobs overseas and donu2019t bring jobs here from abroad.
Election Countdown 2012: The Head of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources Sees Global Warming as a Good Thing, and More
As head of the Department of Environmental Conservationu2019s Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field is a prominent figure in an agency that has promoted hydraulic fracturing as a …
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In New York Bookstore Contract Fight, Occupy Helped Workers Draw Energy, Media Spotlight
When the union contract at Strand Bookstore expired last summer, the workers did not anticipate spending ten months engaged in a dispute that would fundamentally strengthen their voice on …
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It’s a Great Day to Act to Cut the Pentagon Budget
Conventional wisdom is that the automatic cuts in the Budget Control Act won't happen; at the end of the day, they will be replaced by a package of revenue …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Japanese Protesters Take to the Streets Against Nuclear Reactors, and More
On Monday, Republicans in the Senate joined together to filibuster and kill the latest attempt by Democrats to inject transparency in our elections, On Monday, the Georgia State Board …