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America’s top companies spend more money on lobbying than they pay in taxes.

The OECD ranks the United States roughly on a level with Mexico, Chile, and Turkey in overall poverty, child poverty, and health care.

What Future for Occupy Wall Street?

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Robert Reich: Corporations are Not People

To be ignorant is to do the work of one’s enemies.

(Source: The Atlantic)

2 weeks ago

The apocalyptic mind convinces people that if they bring everything down around them, a phoenix will inevitably be born.

Republicans for Revolution

2 weeks ago

It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see that the Web has completely reconfigured society across class, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.

The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - SOPA

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All of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The Joy of Quiet

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We can’t underestimate the power of the collapse of institutional religion in the first 10 years of this century.

Many say ‘So What?’ to God, religion, atheism

1 month ago

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tried to push through a reorganization that would have provided better climate forecasts. But House Republicans labeled the plan an attempt by the Obama administration to start a “propaganda” arm on climate.

Climate Scientists Hampered in Study of 2011 Extremes

1 month ago