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Should We Democratize the Economy?

There is no real public discussion either in the media or by presidential candidates to make the changes necessary to democratize the economy. We have seen a general move to an increasingly regressive tax system in the past 30 or 40 years in the US and Europe. Public boards should make corporations and banks more accountable. Watch the interview with Leo Panitch.


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Embarrassed U.S. Starts to Disown Basra Operation

WASHINGTON, Mar 31 (IPS) - As it became clear last week that the "Operation Knights Assault" in Basra was in serious trouble, the George W. Bush administration began to claim in off-the-record statements to journalists that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had launched the operation without consulting Washington.

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Major Climate Campaign Hits U.S. Airwaves

Building on his Oscar for the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore Wednesday launched a 300-million-dollar media campaign to mobilise the public for concrete action to reduce global warming.

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National Pentagon Radio?

Has NPR become just another mainstream military mouthpiece?

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IBM, Darrell Issa, and Millions of “Lost” White House Emails

At a Congressional committee hearing in February, Theresa Payton, the chief information officer at the White House Office of Administration, testified that White House emails sent and received between 2003 and 2005 fell into a virtual black hole when the Bush administration transitioned from Lotus Notes to the Microsoft Outlook email exchange—a system that apparently was incapable of copying and archiving emails from Lotus.

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As Big Banks Fall: The Bear Has Fallen and the Bull is Gone

New York: If you walk through London’s High Gate cemetery and wander over to the grave of the late Karl Marx and then listen closely with your ear to the ground, you might hear a repetitive murmur of the phrase “I told you so” in a distinctly German inflected accent.

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Open Letter to John McCain

Every few days I get yet another mailing begging me for money for your campaign.

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Obama’s Blood and The Forbidden Truths

After hearing Rush Limbaugh’s hate speech stating he wanted to see Barack Obama “bloodied up politically,” I was not surprised to see a tidal wave of damaging anti-Obama news stories and allegations in the mainstream media.

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