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The Global Warming Olympics

World weather officials have announced that (1) the global warming gasses that enshroud Earth as a result of our ever-increasing...

Riding the Shinkansen

The electric bullet trains that run on the Shinkansen route from Tokyo to Osaka are a beaming source of national...
Freshly squeezed lemon by justin langston

How to squeeze low wages lower

Harvest Time Seafood, a Louisiana processing corporation, has been a beneficiary of the H-2 visa program, putting female guest workers...
A snapshot of inequality

A snapshot of inequality

Money is like manure. For wealth to help nourish a healthy society, it can’t be stored in a few big...

And how’s that war on poppies going?

And lest we get completely distracted by Iraq War III, here’s some breaking news from the frontlines of America’s longest-running...

No, JEFF, not in my name!

Bezos constantly claims that his relentless push for an Amazonian remake of our economy and culture is all about helping...

Taylorism

BEZOS’ COLD, MICROMANAGED, time-motion approach to the workplace is a direct descendant (and extreme extension) of a theory of “scientific management”...

The birth of Amazon

LEGEND HAS IT that Amazon is a classic story of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. In 1994, a bright,...

A blue/red movement

You might expect such liberal bastions as Boston, Madison, Boulder, and San Francisco to call for an end to corporate...

The protest spreads

In order of the date of passage, here are the 16 states that have already petitioned Congress to let their...

When no news is bad news

If a tree falls in the woods and NBC, ABC, and CBS aren’t there to cover the crash, does it...

Senate and House “intelligence”?

In January, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee, teamed up with her House counterpart, Rep. Mike Rogers, to...

Do the three hop

To see how easy it is for millions of innocent citizens to get caught up in NSA’s vast electronic web,...

Brand name riggers of the justice system

Practically every national brand name you’ve ever heard of now slips predatory arbitration provisions into their customer terms-of-service agreements and/or...

A third way

You don’t hear much about it, but there is another path to justice for some consumers who’ve been wronged by...

Are drones watching you?

Find out here. Are your local or state police using drones? Which ones? How many? At what cost? For what purpose?...

America’s new political landscape

FOX TV YAKKER Bill O’Reilly was a sad old man on election night. “The white establishment is now the minority,” he...

The boss man gets bossier

CITIZENS UNITED not only unleashed the Big Dogs of corporate money in this election, but it also unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses...

Mitt’s Millionaire Club

During his infamous, surreptitiously videotaped, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Florida, Romney was full of disdain for poor people “who pay no...

The Rachel alternative

“Michiganistan” is a huge national story with profound consequences for America’s historic ideal of being a self-governing people, the very...
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