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Germany: Arm Sales Scandal Rocks Parliament
Merkel just wouldn’t let the cat out of the bag. In the first days after the arms sale scandal began, her front seat in the Bundestag was conspicuously empty. When she finally did show up she wore a...
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How Fried Chicken Kills Trees
Dear EarthTalk: I understand that fast-food giant YUM! Brands, owner of KFC, is under fire by Greenpeace and others for rainforest destruction. What’s the story? -- Betsy Barnard, Wellesley, MA YUM!...
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Podcast: On Trial for Their Ideas: The Smith Act Trials and Anti-Communism
On this special episode we interview author and journalist Scott Martelle about his new book The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial out recently from Rutgers University Press....
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Frederick Engels on the Historical Development of Modern Socialism
In the first chapter of Part Three of his classic work Anti-Dühring, Engels discusses the origins of the modern socialist movement. He begins with the enthronement of "Reason" by the pre-revolutionary...
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European Financial Crisis: Battle of the Bond Rating Agencies
A shaky agreement patched up between the Greek government and the troika of international organizations, consisting of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union,...
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The Jobs Crisis Will Not Be Cured with the Same Policies that Created It
The Jobs Crisis Will Not Be Cured with the Same Policies that Created the Crisis; Experts and National Leaders Agree, Explore Job-Creating SolutionsJuly 11, 2011 Washington, DC – On the heels of two...
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Unemployment Trumps Debt
The jobs numbers are out. Unemployment is rising across the board again, for the second month in a row, and it is now 99 percent certain that the private economy is not going to cause the numbers to...
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Either We Do Away with Capitalism, or Capitalism Will Do Away with Us
The following is an interview with Spanish philosopher Carlos Fernandez Liria. He and his colleague Luis Alegre Zahonero recently won the international Liberator Prize for Critical Thinking for their...
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Georgia PSC Can't Silence Nuclear Power Debate
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) Doug Everett, Member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, attempted to limit the scope of public remarks at a recent meeting of the PSC, on...
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Recycling Nuclear Waste?
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Why don’t we reprocess and re-use our nuclear waste like France does? Would it be possible for us to start doing so? -- Albert Jukowsky,...
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China's Path to Socialism
Note: Following is the full text of the keynote speech made by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), at a grand gathering marking the 90th...
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New York Coalition Urges Reps. to Resist GOP Budget Cuts
A diverse coalition of more than 60 human service, community, senior, labor, economic policy and peace organizations has sent a joint letter to the NYC congressional delegation urging them to provide a...
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FOX Silence on Hacking Scandal Reveals Hypocrisy
News Corp's Hack Shows a Double StandardPalin Hack Had O'Reilly Calling for Criminal Prosecution Source: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting The explosive allegations about widespread illegal voicemail...
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Close the Trillion Dollar Tax Loophole to Reduce the Deficit
With all of the talk about the debt ceiling and deficit reduction, small business owners may just have a good idea to close the budget gap by $1 trillion over the next decade without cutting essential...
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Two Years of Repression and Mobilizations in Honduras
Original source: DialogoThe widespread repression and murders of political and labor union leaders and human rights activists has not stopped ongoing demonstrations in Honduras against the coup-driven...
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The "Three Great Achievements"
Original source: China DailyOur “three great achievements” over the past 90 years are that “we have embarked on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, formed a system of theories of...
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Choice in All Things: Consumer Financial Protection as the “Plain Vanilla...
“[T]here's a view that says protect consumers by limiting the choices they have. Let's create one mortgage, one approved credit card, one of each, right, kind of a plain-vanilla approach to financial...
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Three Irresolvable Crises of Capitalism
Editor's note: This article is based on a presentation made on a Political Affairs panel at the 2011 Conference on Working Class Studies held at the University of Illinois - Chicago last June. Among...
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Brinksmanship and the Dollar
Besides the fact that he may be offering a security-blanket to the psyches of his fellow citizens and at the same time pumping up public confidence in order to strengthen the dollar, Wall Street...
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In Retrospect, Some Candid Opinions: Unpublished Final Chapter of Dissent on...
Note: William Schneiderman came to the United States in 1908 at the age of two, was an important leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America from the 1930s until the 1950s, and was...
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