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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Voter Intimidation At McDonald’s: Employees Told That, Unless Republicans Win, They Won’t Get Raises Or Benefits
By Amanda Terkel HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — There may be something rotten at McDonald’s — and it’s not a year-old Happy Meal. The owner of a franchise in Canton, Ohio enclosed a handbill in employees’ paychecks that threatened lower wages … Continue reading
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Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
By Laura Sullivan NPR Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal. Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch. “The gentleman that’s the main … Continue reading
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Halliburton’s Return: Oil Spill Puts Symbol Of Cronyism And Corruption Back In The News
By Dan Froomkin HUFFINGTON POST It seems increasingly likely that when investigators determine the precise cause of the oil-rig explosion that threatens to poison huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico, what they’ll conclude is that something went catastrophically wrong … Continue reading
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Don’t Try This Abroad
By Dave Algoso FOREIGN POLICY Many globally minded, can-do Americans these days have come to believe that the world’s major problems have solutions, and that these solutions are within reach. This feeling often leads to frustration: Why doesn’t someone just … Continue reading
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Big Ideas that Change the World – Consumerism
A very nice documentary on consumerism and its discontents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ29DQvopZo (1/4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJWYWKNdq4Y (2/4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFTjqzqZ3zU (3/4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMvJ2giDmQ (4/4) Andy
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Marx and Sustainability
A couple of links that present sides of Marx that have almost been completely suppressed: Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development Karl Marx the ecologist And then of course there’s John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature; and Ecology … Continue reading
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Google Tax-Evasion Scheme Costs U.S. BILLIONS
By Jesse Drucker BLOOMBERG Google IS Evil Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting … Continue reading
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Ben Prince’s BIG RETURN
As part of Heather Sparks’ Big Return, Ben Prince contributed:
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Tropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted at Alarming Rate
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2010) New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report … Continue reading
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Opening Gambit: Moore’s Flaw
BY CHARLES HOMANS Foreign Policy Magazine Next year marks the 50th birthday of the first commercially produced silicon microchip, a device that has arguably reordered society more profoundly than any invention since the internal combustion engine. It will also be … Continue reading
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