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An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky at WritersMugsIn which he discusses Iran, Irag andother matters of great importBy Wajahat Ali / June 17, 2008 “I’m absolutely deluged with requests right now, but I really would like to do this interview, I just don’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Freedom, American Hegemony, Capitalism, Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Intellectuals, Interview, Iran, Iraq, Journalism, Media, Monopoly Capitalism, Pentagon
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There’s Just Something Wrong About Profit on Water
Tapped OutBy Lisa Margonelli / June 15, 2008 To paraphrase an old axiom: You don’t buy water, you only rent it. So why did Americans spend nearly $11 billion on bottled water in 2006, when we could have guzzled tap … Continue reading
Blackwater : New Markets for Corporate Thugs
Blackwater’s Private SpiesBy Jeremy Scahill This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company’s shooters gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. But by early … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Corporate Corruption, Iraq, Latin America, Pentagon
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Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
No thanks: An anti-Monsanto crop circle made by farmers and volunteers in the Philippines. Photo byy Melvyn Calderon/Greenpeace HO/A.P. Images.Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, which follows, first appeared in the May issue of … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Capitalism, Corporate Corruption, Environment, Genetic Engineering
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The Waste, the Fraud, and the Abuse : Staggering
Byron Dorgan’s Contracting Fraud CrusadeBy Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium / May 31, 2008 The North Dakota senator has made investigating contractor corruption his mission, but will he succeed in creating a congressional committee devoted to it? In the wake … Continue reading
Rachel Ray in Keffiyeh : Donut Terrorist?
Drivel Dragon Disses Doughnut DivaBy Dark Wraith / May 28, 2008 Global doughnut franchiser Dunkin’ Donuts has removed from broadcast an ad featuring television chef Rachel Ray because Right-wing extremist Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin claimed that, in the ad, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Dining, Madison Avenue, Media, Terrorism
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If You Don’t Grow Your Seed, You Lose Your Power
Heather Meek with Quebec-produced Fortin beans at her family’s Ferme de Bullion in St. Andre d’Argenteuil, Quebec. Photograph: Phil Carpenter, CanwestFamily Seed Business Takes On Goliath of Genetic Modificationby Marian Scott Heather Meek leafs through the seed catalogue she wrote … Continue reading
U.S. Economy On Very Shaky Ground
Tim Backshall, chief credit derivatives strategist at Credit Derivatives Research LLC, sits for a photo in his office in Walnut Creek, California, on May 6, 2008. Photo by Andy Freeberg/Bloomberg Markets via Bloomberg News. A long but very good analysis … Continue reading
The Kernel of Solidarity Exists in Every Workplace
The Myth of the Reactionary Working Classby Adam Turl / May 23, 2008 The working class is back–or at least the words “working class” are. For decades, an army of pundits and academics argued that the majority of people in … Continue reading
Contempt for the Plight of the Common Man
Let’s be clear about the contempt that corporate Amerikkka holds for you, me, and all those trying to make their way. This example is one of thousands a day that shows that we are beneath them, they have no time … Continue reading
Resisting Monsanto’s Seed Imperialism
Focus On The Corporation: The Genetically Modified Food Gambleby Robert Weissman There have been few experiments as reckless, over-hyped, and with as little potential upside as the rapid rollout of genetically modified crops. The International Service for the Acquisition of … Continue reading
Microsoft = Corruption
So says one principled Hungarian fellow. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer reacted by ducking behind a desk when a Hungarian man unleashed a verbal and egg-filled tirade today during a lecture at a Budapest university.
