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News WikiLeaked Doc Reveals Wall Street Plan for Global Financial Deregulation WikiLeaks releases draft text of trade deal exposing efforts to increase stranglehold over global economy Read more |
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Views We Can't Afford to Spend More Money on War in Iraq Over the past decade, American taxpayers have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into funding the war in Iraq -- $816 billion since 2003, and counting. Meanwhile, domestic human, social, and infrastructure needs have suffered drastic budget cutbacks. One recent poll shows that 74 percent of... Read more |
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Views What Piketty Forgot: The Crisis of Capitalism Isn't Just about Inequality It's not just about the distance between rich and poor, but about the gap between what’s demanded by our planet and what’s demanded by our economy. Read more |
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Views Want to Fight Poverty? Raise US Wages Increasing wages is an effective poverty reduction tool Read more |
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Views Power Play: Why the Left Needs to Get Down to Building a Radical Civil Society Being a leftist today is a lot like playing pinball. Every machine has two flippers with a gulf between them. They’re used to knock balls toward bright and shiny bumpers. When a collision inevitably occurs, the bumper can propel the balls all across the board. For a little while, it looks and... Read more |
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Views Healthcare: Let's Have People Over Profits Once And For All There are some things in this world that shouldn’t be turned into profit-making machines, and healthcare is definitely one of them. Believe it or not, there was a time in America when in almost every state health insurance companies and hospitals were required to be non-profits. Back then,... Read more |
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Views Making Schools Poor Last week, Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu in Los Angeles ruled that five California statutes protecting the job security of schoolteachers were unconstitutional. Likening his brief, sixteen-page ruling to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing racial segregation... Read more |
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Views Overcoming the Twin Hurdles of Inequality and Climate Change Two major injustices – inequality and climate change – are threatening to undermine the efforts of millions of people to escape poverty and hunger. By concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a few, inequality robs the poorest people of the support they need to improve their lives. And as... Read more |
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News Argentina President Blasts US Bank 'Extortion' of Developing Nations Supreme Court refusal to hear appeal spells 'terrible news for all of the developing world' Read more |
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Views Goldman Sachs: Too Big To Rein In? Has Goldman Sachs retained its financial power and political clout? Read more |