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Ehrenreich: My Unwitting Role in Acts of Torture
Znet Article, February, 22 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Our 1979 satire was not subtle. Yet Mohamed's life was destroyed, it seems, for having read it.
Ehrenreich: Corporate America, Ground Your Jets
Znet Article, February, 21 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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If anything symbolizes the excesses and inequalities of the last few years, it's the private Learjet or Gulfstream. While the masses take off their shoes and line up for security screening, high-fliers inhabit a parallel transportation universe ch...
Ehrenreich: Rich Get Poorer, Poor Disappear
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ever on the lookout for the bright side of hard times, I am tempted to delete “class inequality†from my worry list. Less than a year ago, it was the one of the biggest economic threats on the horizon, with even hard line conservative pundits ...
Ehrenreich: Report from the Socialist International Conspiracy
Znet Article, October, 22 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Surely you have heard by now of the imminent socialist takeover of America, and if you find the prospect unlikely, ask yourself: How many socialists do you know who lost millions in the recent stock market crashes? Just as I thought -- none -- and...
Ehrenreich: Communist Manifesto Turns 160
Znet Article, October, 05 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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This year marks the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto and capitalism -- a k a "free enterprise" -- seems willing to observe the occasion by dropping dead...
Ehrenreich: Suicide Solution
Znet Article, July, 30 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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A few days before Congress passed its Housing Bill, Carlene Balderrama of Taunton, MA found her own solution to the housing crisis. Just a little over two hours in advance of the time her mortgage company, PHH Mortgage Corporation -- may its nam...
Ehrenreich: Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence
Znet Article, June, 23 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Everyone talks about our terrible dependency on oil -- foreign and otherwise -- but hardly anyone mentions what it is. Fossil fuel, all right, but whose fossils? Mostly tiny plants called diatoms, but quite possibly a few Barney-like creatures wen...
Ehrenreich: Hillary’s Gift to Women
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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In Friday’s New York Times, Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her media reputation as “nasty” and “ruthless.” F...
Ehrenreich: Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol
Znet Article, April, 30 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Truckers live in an alternative dimension, at least so I conclude when trying to figure out how to meet up with the convoy of trucks coming into to DC to protest high diesel fuel prices on Monday. JB, a k a Mike Schaffner, one of the organizers of...
Ehrenreich: Truckers Hit the Brakes
Znet Article, April, 11 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Until the beginning of this month, Americans seemed to have nothing to say about their ongoing economic ruin except, "Hit me! Please, hit me again!" You can take my house, but let me mow the lawn for you one more time before you repossess. Take my...
Hayden: Progressives for Obama
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Tom Hayden
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We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country...
Ehrenreich: The Fall of the American Consumer
Znet Article, March, 12 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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How much lower can consumer spending go? The malls are like mausoleums, retail clerks are getting laid off, and AOL recently featured on its welcome page the story of man so cheap that he recycles his dental floss -- hanging it from a nail in his ...
Ehrenreich: Unstoppable Obama
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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When did you begin to think that Obama might be unstoppable? Was it when your grown feminist daughter started weeping inconsolably over his defeat in New Hampshire? Or was it when he triumphed in Virginia, a state still littered with Confederate m...
Ehrenreich: Hillary's Real MLK Problem
Znet Article, January, 16 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The role of movements in social change.
Ehrenreich: Experts Warn of Recession -- Duh, We're Living in One Already
Znet Article, January, 12 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The soothsayers have slaughtered the ox and are examining the gloppy entrails for signs: Rising unemployment, a falling dollar, weak consumer spending, the credit crisis, a swooning stock market. Could there be something wrong here? Could we actua...
Ehrenreich: Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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It was enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket. The Gap has been caught using child labor in an Indian sweatshop, and not just child labor -- child slaves. As extensively reported on the news, the children, some as young as 10, wer...
Ehrenreich: Happy Fascism Awareness Week!
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I've never been able to explain Halloween to the kids, with its odd thematic confluence of pumpkins, candy, and death. But Halloween is a piece of pumpkin cake compared to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which commences today. In this special week,...
Ehrenreich: John Templeton's Universe
Znet Article, October, 14 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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John Templeton's Universe
Ehrenreich: The Clinton Campaign: Running on Ambien
Znet Article, October, 03 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Clinton Campaign: Running on Ambien
Ehrenreich: The Silenced Majority
Zmag Article, October, 01 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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YOU MAY not have noticed, but 50,000 U.S. coal miners were on strike for four months this spring and summer 1989. The 10-state strike featured the unprecedented mass application of nonviolent civil disobedience to a labor stru...
