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New Clean Air Rules Force Some Coal Plants to Close
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive NewsATLANTA, Georgia, Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) - Utility companies across the U.S. have announced plans to shut down and retire several coal-fired power plants...
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China to Impose Carbon Caps
Original source: China Economic Net China is likely to soon begin a campaign to limit the absolute amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by certain industries in certain regions, a senior...
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Jobs and Unity: Standing Up to the GOP Agenda
The latest crisis orchestrated by the Republican House leadership and Tea Party congressional delegation, this time over raising the federal debt ceiling, shows more than ever a crying need to build a...
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Time to Change the Subject from Fake Political Crisis to Real Economic Crisis
AFL-CIO Executive Council StatementWashington, DCThe United States is in a continuing and severe jobs crisis. Our economy is growing at less than 2 percent per year, and growth is slowing. Official...
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Rain in Downtown: A True Story of a Woman in Poverty
Rain is hitting the front window of the craftsman home in Pico-Union district of Los Angeles. A first memory of rain, more than 50 years ago, I was four years old standing at the living room window...
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Competing Narratives in Syria: Between Tired Slogans and a Looming Dawn
There is no linear narrative capable of explaining the multifarious happenings that have gripped Syrian society in recent months. On March 23, as many as 20 peaceful protesters were killed at the hands...
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Free Trade Agreements: The Dangerous New Frontier
Original source: People's DemocracyWhile considerable attention has been focused on the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the binding trade rules that it imposes on member countries, there is a shift...
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Japan: Labor Movement Calls for Minimum Wage Hike
The Welfare Ministry’s Central Minimum Wages Council on July 27 made a recommendation to increase regional minimum hourly wages ranging from 1 yen to 18 yen, a 6 yen increase to 736 yen on...
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Apes of the world UNITE!
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Directedby Rupert Wyatt, 2011 For those of you needing a good action/sci-fi flick but maybe Cowboys and Aliens isnt your thing, this is your film. But not just for...
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Coming Full-Circle in Tahrir Square
Friday 29 July 2011 had been billed as a “Friday of Unity” demonstration in Tahrir Square uniting secular and Islamic opposition forces to come out to push for further change in Egypt. But the arrival...
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Poetry
Cadence CountFrom draftee to soldier, I was transformed.What be the device to make me conform. The regimentation of the dismounted drill, Would be the method to shatter my freewill. Pay attention,...
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No Marx Without Lenin?
Originally published in German in Junge Welt, Berlin, December 2010 When I first spoke to my wife about the topic of this lecture, she said laconically, "You're crazy. Why is Marx not conceivable...
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Ready to Rumble for Jobs, Not War and More Weapons?
Something is missing in the swirl of news reporting on the debt ceiling deal struck on August 2 by the Congress and the President for close to $1 trillion in cuts in discretionary programs over the...
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The United States, Israel & Very Little of the Rest of the World, United
The United States, Israel & Very Little of the Rest of the World, UnitedBy Carl Bloice There have been a lot of foreign guests in Israel recently. Many of them had their way paid. The list includes...
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The New Scramble for Africa
The New Scramble for Africa By Conn HallinanSeptember 14, 2011Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the rightwing Heritage Foundation, one of...
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Liberalism In Despair
Liberalism in DespairJohn CaseDespair and GloomPaul Krugman’s recent post to his “Conscience of a Liberal” blog concisely summarizes the despair of nearly every economist, not completely under the...
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Thoughts from China: Socialism, a work in progress
BEIJING - I arrived in Beijing on June 25. My first time in Asia. My first time outside of the Western hemisphere. Though I had studied some Chinese, I was a bit overwhelmed at the communication...
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Building an Economic Recovery After the End of History
Near the end of the last century the United States' became a nation of unparalleled military and economic power. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the rapid expansion of global trade some in the...
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The Euro Zone Crisis - Worse than it Appears - Or So We're Being Told?
When President Obama dispatched Treasury Secretary Geithner to Wroclaw, Poland last month to sit in at the meeting of the 17-nation Eurozone finance ministers, it was because, as he put it later, the...
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I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine
I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine by John Case I dreamed I saw St. AugustineAlive with fiery breathAnd I dreamed I was amongst the onesThat put him out to deathOh, I awoke in angerSo alone and terrifiedI...
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