All Views Articles for 2012-02-06
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Richard Eskow How to Score a Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Deal Once again we're hearing that a foreclosure fraud deal is about to be announced between major banks, the U.S. government and most or all of the states. We've heard that before, only to have the... Read more |
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Bill Moyers, Michael Winship Saul Alinsky, Who? And now, a word about a good American being demonized, despite being long dead. Saul Alinsky is not around to defend himself, but that hasn’t kept Newt Gingrich from using his name to whip up the... Read more |
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Pat LaMarche Roseanne Barr Joins Other Green Party Candidates Comedic innovator, proud grandma and self-proclaimed domestic goddess Roseanne Barr has announced her candidacy for President of the United States as well as for Prime Minister of Israel. Although... Read more |
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Bill Quigley Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power “Corporations are people, my friend.” Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Cancer in Occupy The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Offshore Everywhere: How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve just about every costly toy-cum-boondoggle from the good old days... Read more |
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Tom Gallagher On Not Asking the 'Job Creators' the Tough Questions Do state-level “job creation” programs work? Hard to say, according to a new study. The belief in cutting business taxes as a reliable method for increasing local employment is so widely shared in... Read more |
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Vandana Shiva The Seed Emergency: The Threat to Food and Democracy Patenting seeds has led to a farming and food crisis - and huge profits for US biotechnology corporations. Read more |
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Daphne Wysham Fracking Perils: A Dangerous Misstep on the Road to U.S. Energy Independence The ongoing bonanza in the U.S. hydraulic fracturing industry marks a dangerous misstep on the road to U.S. energy independence. Read more |