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Schechter: The Kabuki Play
Jul 31, 2011
The Wall Street powercrats are high stakes poker players and this was one game they knew they would win
Shiva: The Great Seed Robbery
Jul 27, 2011
Patents are central to the colonization of plant regeneration
Schechter: The Blue Eyes of Terror
Jul 26, 2011
While Bin Laden castigated crusaders, Breivik salutes them in a 1518 page manifesto of madness
Shiva: Who Will Keep India Democratic?
Jul 25, 2011
Corruption is the unjust, illegal and private appropriation of public resources and public wealth
Shiva: Who Pollutes: The Powerful or Powerless?
Jul 23, 2011
The poor live in the places polluted by the rich
Schechter: Mandela’s Legacy
Jul 18, 2011
The question is: which Mandela will be memorialized?
Schechter: We Can’t Escape The Tension
Jul 15, 2011
So here I am in one of the most beautiful corners of the world and yet under the surface, it is seething with conflicts
Street: Obama’s Golden Rule
Jun 29, 2011
Team Obama 2012 has devised a new money-tapping entity called the Obama Victory Fund
Schechter: South Africa’s Youth
Jun 27, 2011
Kids know more abut Mandela than the movement he led, an expression of the celebrity worship that dominates youth culture
Schor: Why Recent Bad Economic News Means It’s Time For Working Less
Jun 20, 2011
The austerity economics that says work longer and retire later has it exactly wrong
Swanson: Washington Post Wants Endless War
Jun 19, 2011
When fighting a war to build a democratic nation, something we have pretended to do quite often but never yet done, it is important to maintain absolute contempt for one's own democracy
Soldz: Torture Accountability After All?
Jun 16, 2011
Those of us who opposed the Bush administration torture program have been demoralized by the lack of accountability
Swanson: The Antiwar Movement 10 Years On
Jun 13, 2011
Many of us have come to the conclusion that the antiwar movement in the United States needs to act much more boldly in order to succeed
Street: The Tea Party Upside Down
Jun 10, 2011
The modern day “Tea Partiers” are right to steer clear of the real history of the event they have sought to appropriate
Solomon: The Search for War
May 28, 2011
A country that’s committed to being at war will treat the real potential for peace as an abstraction
Schechter: Too Big to Jail
May 26, 2011
What was missing was any notion of intentionality and premeditation, systemic fraud and CRIME
Swanson: Republicans to Crown Obama King
May 23, 2011
This new "legal" language would get presidents around the restrictions of the War Powers Resolution
Schechter: Bankers and Aggressive Sexuality
May 21, 2011
What needs to be examined is how the crimes of the rich and powerful are treated
Street: A Nightly Orwellian Ritual
May 19, 2011
The new “public” system was “set up in such a way as to ensure that it was feeble, dependent, and marginal”
Aug 05, 2011
“Defense” (military empire) spending has increased significantly under the supposedly antiwar president