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Which Side Is Government On? | The American Prospect
Government Contracting can be corrected to provide for a living wage, as it did in decades past
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Robert Scheer: Reagan Didn’t Do It - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig
Clinton and his team did the damage, and he lays it out here
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Steve Fraser: Steve Fraser on the Crisis of Capitalism - Essay - Truthdig
Analysis of economics, focusing on depression, and intersection of politics; includes behavioral econ
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Daniel Ellsberg: A Hundred Holocausts: An Insider’s Window Into U.S. Nuclear Policy - Truthdig
First of six parts on Ellsberg Memoir: The American Doomsday Machine-very powerful
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Foreign Policy in Focus | The Virtues of Deglobalization
Eleven foundations of DEglobalization listed
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Robert J. Samuelson - Robert J. Samuelson on our health-care nation - washingtonpost.com
Samuelson gets it right on health care debate: and urges focus on cost and delivery, not current political footballs.
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Don't Blame the Billionaires | The American Prospect
Nuanced and different analysis of the gap between rich and poor: its not the gap so much, as it is the need to assist the middle and lower classes, without a comparison or "us vs them"
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Fed Up With Federalism | The American Prospect
Balanced review of benefits of federalism vs the costs to modern society (especially in view of our global competitors) of state controlled policy
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Beyond Bars | The American Prospect
The Hope concept and other practical approaches for being Smart on crime, and punishment
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Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? - The New York Review of Books
Great synopsis of horrible prison statistics
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The Measure of Our Progress | OurFuture.org
FDR inaugural in 1937: a model for today, with analysis and comparisons
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Our Right to Dissent is Under Siege: Why the Protests in Pittsburgh Are a Victory For Free Speech | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
Increased police powers make demonstrating much more difficult
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Op-Ed Contributor - The High Cost of Empty Prisons - NYTimes.com
Statistics and info invaluable; current situation with NY declining prison population
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How American Health Care Killed My Father - The Atlantic (September 2009)
David Goldhill, makes great argument for improvements OTHER THAN single payer
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5 Ways to Build a Fascist-Proof America | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
Sarah Robinsons Best: Our real goal is to turn around the lower and middle classes and give them relative justice
