Saturday, September 8, 2012

“A Lot of People Believe This Stuff”: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Public Relations

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Click here to access article by Andrew Gavin Marshall from his blog.  This brilliant, young Canadian reveals the history and the methods ...

'Lesser Evil' Voters: Stop Enabling Your Abusers (part 2)

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Click here to access article by Mickey Z. from World News Trust.  The author uses an amusing metaphor about a restaurant with a limited m...

Journalists at the RNC Either Suck Up To Power, Or Risk Attack…

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Click here to access article by Yasha Levine from The eXiled .  Covering a Republican convention honestly can hazardous to ones career. M...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Honduras to build new city with its own laws and tax system to attract investors

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Click here to access article by Jonathan Watts from The Guardian. This article announces a new twist--privatized cities--in the private e...

Interview with Eric Laursen on Social Security and The People's Pension

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Click here to access article from Infoshop New s.  This author of a recently published tome entitled The People's Pension explains a...

Saudi oil well dries up

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Click here to access article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard from The Telegraph .  A 150-page report by Heidy Rehman on the Saudi petrochemica...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

There is no democracy without economic democracy

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Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from his blog Systemic Disorder .  This piece might also be entitled, "Democracy for Dum...

Apple, Drone Strikes, and the Limits of Censorship

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Click here to access article by Jay Stanley from American Civil Liberties Union .  This report once again illustrates how big corporation...

Press outlets protest Manning trial secrecy

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Click here to access article by Josh Gerstein from Politico .  More than 30 news outlets and media organizations lodged an official prote...

Speculating Banks Profit as World's Poorest Go Hungry

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Click here to access article by staff from Common Dreams .  The ingenious ways that operators of capitalism's casinos have devised to...

It's Not Just the LAPD: The Big Lie About Police Brutality is Claiming it's Not Rampant

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Click here to access article by Dave LIndorff from This Can't Be Happening .  More evidence of an emerging police state in the US w...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Infrastructure-as-asset-class: Financing development or developing finance?

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Click here to access article by Nicholas Hildyard from The Corner House (UK) This British author introduces us to another neo-liberal in...

Ecologically Sustainable Development

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Click here to access article by Peter Lach-Newinsky (Australian) from his blog memengineering . Around the time of the UN Rio Conference ...

What Part of Free Speech Does Whole Foods Not Understand?

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Click here to access article by Don Fitz from MR Zine .  Actions by police (the enforcers of the One Percent) in Brentwood, Missouri illu...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

All Eyes on Chicago’s Teachers

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Click here to access article by Shamus Cooke from Workers Action.  This writer, who specializes in labor issues, sees the current struggl...

Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza

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Click here to access article by Nick Turse from TomDispatch. (Note: if you wish to skip the introduction, you need to scroll down to this a...

The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free

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Click here to access article by Dean Baker from The Guardian. ...the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a pact that the United St...

Game Over? Or Overtime?

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Click here to access article by Albert Bates from his blog The Great Change (UK).  ...an international group of scientists, the Arctic M...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Capitalism's Ideological Crutches

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Click here to access article by Richard D Wolff from Truthout .  In this very insightful article the author argues that the capitalist ru...

As Spain's Recession Darkens, Alternative Economies Rise

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Click here to access article by staff at Common Dreams .  The most pernicious form of private ownership and control is in relation to a n...