From David Swanson, Chris Hedges and Others
Dear Friends in the Peace Movement, We can’t afford to let this opportunity slip by. By taking action over the next five days the peace community has a chance to…
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Michael Moore: Still SICKO After All These Years!!
Still SiCKO After All These Years Saturday, June 30th, 2012. – 7 PM Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancy Street, Philadelphia, PA $40 Minimum Donation. Tickets Available On-line. First Come,…
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CommonSense2 – June 2012 – Issue # 52
Welcome to this, our 52nd issue. Well, here we are. Mired in another meaningless dog and pony show otherwise known as the election of 2012. Spectacles abound. Reality heads for…
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Memorial Day 2012: A Lesson Not Yet Learned
Today is Memorial Day, the last day of the three-day weekend. Veterans and community groups will remember those who died in battle and, as they have done for more than…
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The Wind
You were there at the beginning. You saw the seed expand. You saw the rivers of blood, the rise of man. You carried Nero’s song from the Tower of Maecenas,…
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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon is without a doubt the grand white whale of the American Literary scene—a writer of Melvilleian and Dickensian scale who vanishes as soon as he appears. No one…
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The Disease Is Our Monetary System
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation [bubbles], then by deflation [recession or depression], the banks and corporations that…
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Mission Impossible: Finding a Minivan Made in America by Union Workers
Last year, not one of the 491,687 new minivans sold in the United States was made in America by unionized workers. Some were manufactured overseas by companies owned by non-American…
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Michael Moore & Wendell Potter to Rally One Payer States
You’re Invited! Late June will mark the fifth anniversary of the release of Michael Moore’s documentary, SiCKO, which contrasts health care in other industrialized countries with the dysfunctional system (or…
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NOTES ON WILLARD MITT
I haven’t written for a while but I recall that in a previous article I panned the President for being too appeasing to the right wing. I’ve since decided there…
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