1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
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...o elected, sovereign governments- accountable to labour and industry, and accountable to the ecosystem * publicly accountable central banks must be free to a) inject debt-free money into the economy,...

2. Competition for Main Street
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...ss. It would relieve the major banks and investment firms of their mountainous rotten assets and make the public swallow their losses -- many hundreds of billions, maybe much more. What's not to l...

3. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...r government action responding to public will - for some measure of ...

4. When Money Is Speech, Speech Is Not Free
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... claim his rights were violated is laughable. Despite the Court's ideological split, this is not a Republican-Democrat conflict. The plaintiff, Mr. Davis, is a Democrat who twice spent his own mi...

5. Bolivian Political Crisis
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...ching testimonies of survivors and witnesses from the campesino massacres in Pando last week. The on-line publication Ukhampacha Bolivia has translated a number of these as reported by Radio Erbol. He...

6. Judge lifts gag on Boston students over transit security
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...ON (AP) - A federal judge Tuesday lifted a gag order on three MIT students who were barred from talking publicly about security flaws they discovered in the state's automated mass transit fare syst...

7. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system ?
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... Through the partnership with Rock The Vote, Microsoft is also planning to have a presence at the Republican and Democrat party conventions to educate politicians about it and its members views...

8. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
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...oi, Haiphong, Saigon and most of Indochina, but the devastating defeat at Dien Bien Phu finally crushed public support in France for the war; within three months, a ceasefire and withdrawal were ag...

9. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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... the New York-based Blackstone Group LP - the world's largest private-equity fund - had decided to go public. In other words its private owners had resolved (to the puzzlement of many) to make som...

10. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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...livered in his speeches, embroidered by his officials and trumpeted by the brass band of neo-conservative publicists. The foundation for his stab-in-the-back theory was laid in the beginning. "Ei...

11. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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... The barrio, however, is an exception. Around fifty people are killed in Caracas every weekend, clogging public hospitals with the corpses of young men: victims of revenge killings, gang wars, narcot...

12. Sudanese adrift in Israel
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...rowing number of young Sudanese whose recent arrival in Israel is challenging both the government and the public over issues of asylum in ways that they have never been challenged before. Today, Israe...

13. Racism and Democracy: 50 years since Little Rock integration
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...Little Rock School Board had voted to integrate -- Faubus said he feared violence if the races mixed in a public school. The showdown soon became a test for then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who...