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Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month April 2010
No special Army unit on US soil before election
Army Times retracts and clarifies.
Looting Main Street
How the nation’s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece Taibbi details the thuggery, outright bribery, and sleazy dealings whereby investment banks looted Jefferson County, Alabama. Lots of locals who joined…
Can capitalism fix the climate?
Green Left makes clear the obvious point that capitalism, with its maniacal focus on short-term profit over everything else, is incompatible with the long-term vision and planning needed to stop global warming. But then they quote Bolivian president Evo Morales…
New food safety bill could crush local food movement
Next week, the Senate will vote on a measure that could potentially extinguish California’s local food movement. Lobbied for by multinational agribusiness giants such as Cargill and Monsanto, as well as supported by the pharmaceutical industry, The Food Safety Modernization…