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Corporate Citizenship: How Public Dissent In Paris Sparked Creation Of The Corporate Person

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

Ryan Grim & Mike Sacks WASHINGTON — Of all the Occupy Wall Street refrains, one of the most memorable is, “I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one.” But, clever as it is, the quip looks … Continue reading →

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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

Posted on September 8, 2011 by admin

Saturday 3 September 2011 by: Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah – only you’re a little more rotten.” -”Double Indemnity” (1944) Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up … Continue reading →

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Why Did Capitalism Fail?

Posted on August 19, 2011 by admin

Bob Burnett Berkeley writer, retired Silicon Valley executive We live in interesting times. The global economy is splintering. U.S. voters hate all politicians and there’s political unrest throughout the world. The root cause of this turmoil is the failure of … Continue reading →

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Why I’m Starting the No Bullshit Party and Running for President

Posted on August 19, 2011 by admin

Jeff WaldCEO, ARIA Multimedia Entertainment After watching the so-called first Republican debate the other night in Iowa, I wanted to imitate Peter Finch in Network and open my window and scream that “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going … Continue reading →

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Tomgram: Chris Hellman, The Pentagon’s Spending Spree

Posted on August 18, 2011 by admin

Posted by Christopher Hellman at 7:46am, August 16, 2011. China just launched a refitted Ukrainian aircraft carrier from the 1990s on its first test run — and that’s what the only projected “great power” enemy of the U.S. has to … Continue reading →

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30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class Died

Posted on August 11, 2011 by admin

By Michael Moore From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, “When did this all begin, America’s downward slide?” They say they’ve heard of a time when working people could raise a family and send the kids to … Continue reading →

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A Third Alternative to the Debt Crisis?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by admin

Stephen R. Covey Author, leadership authority, co-founder & vice-chairman of FranklinCovey Co. The rigid partisanship behind last week’s spectacle in Washington came very close to injuring the entire world economy. The deal that was struck will not keep the mountainous … Continue reading →

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The President Surrenders

Posted on August 1, 2011 by admin

By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: July 31, 2011 A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many commentators will declare that disaster was avoided. But they will be wrong. Fred R. Conrad/The New … Continue reading →

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Death To The Debt Ceiling Negotiations!

Posted on July 26, 2011 by admin

Jason Linkins Hello, America. About two weeks ago, I left the United States on a vacation abroad, and when I did so, it was generally assumed that some sort of “deal” or “grand bargain” or “bipartisan dry-hump” might be realized … Continue reading →

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Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish

Posted on July 26, 2011 by admin

By feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, lawmakers have thrown a monstrous monkey wrench into our national finances. By Sam Pizzigati July 24, 2011 Once upon a time in America, back a century ago, … Continue reading →

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