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Hobbled, We're Losing The Global Energy Race

July 15, 2009

While American ideologues talk free market purity, countries with intelligent, carefully considered industrial policies are pulling ahead of us. Energy is the key.

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Right-Wing Economics Should Go the Way of Soviet Communism

By Arianna Huffington

From alternet.org

December 26th, 2008

alternet.org — The collapse of Communism as a political system sounded the death knell for Marxism as an ideology. But while laissez-faire capitalism has been a monumental failure in practice, and soundly defeated at the polls, the ideology is still alive and kicking.

The only place you can find an American Marxist these days is teaching a college linguistic theory class. But you can find all manner of free market fundamentalists still on the Senate floor or in Governor's mansions or showing up on TV trying to peddle the deregulation snake oil.

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More Water Woes

By Tom Sullivan

June 22, 2008

Rick Perlstein took up Atlanta's water problems yesterday, and I wanted to add my two cents. It's funny hearing Atlanta's water problems discussed as something recent. more »

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Manufacturing a Food Crisis

By Walden Bello

From thenation.com

May 15th, 2008

thenation.com — How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.

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Pay-to-play Politics

Deliberately and maliciously, conservatives have been dismantling the checks, balances and transparency that made our country great. From suspect campaign contributions to illegal junkets, government now serves the wealthy few, not the American people as a whole. more »