Big business has found a number of ways to profit from the economic suffering on ‘Main Street.’ By **Joshua Holland** From Alternet.Org. The ruins of the American economy represent a…
…aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to make war for profit. Screw…
…reading the piece. Fortunately, technology being what it is, I was able to find it on the net. “Because of the way tropical rain forests work, they are dependent on…
…their phones. Her website cultivates an air of mystery. It’s a single monochrome page consisting solely of the words “Aragi,” “Nicole Aragi,” and “queries@aragi.net.” You’d get more information from your…
…children. The U.S. is not among them. The net worth of black and Latino college graduates is similar to the net worth of white high school graduates. In 1949, mortgages…
…he started NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. He is the co-publisher with Arianna Huffington of OfftheBus, a collaboration between NewAssignment.Net and the Huffington Post in…
…built upon in the ’60s, toward actually creating a social safety net and improving the security of all Americans. “I get upset when I hear women’s groups talking about women’s…
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…majorly fantastic, probably more stoned and more fantastic than his father had ever been—way, way more. Never again did he want to leave this place, where nothing mattered because everything…
…It was. I mean, I got the Internet. [Laughs.] I starting reading mcsweeneys.net in the very early days of that, and then I read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius…
…global future. Because energy is tied to so many aspects of the global economy, and because doubts are growing about the future availability of oil and other vital fuels, the…
…we have to turn to independent investigators, like Kim Bobo, author of Wage Theft in America, who estimates that wage theft nets employers at least $100 billion a year and…
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…of $2.18 trillion in the fourth quarter, up from $2.02 trillion last year, and their earnings tripled. Why? Mainly because they’re global, and selling into fast-growing markets in places like…
Image from Flickr via ChristinaElyse F or me, being a Southern writer has meant being cast in a net, caught in a web, woven into a network of relationships. It…
…years. Because the Gulf of Maine is warmer than modern humans have ever witnessed, phytoplankton are disappearing and green crab populations are exploding. Sea squirts are smothering the seafloor. Because…
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…a little overstated, like Columbus’s “discovery” of America, it was because the poor, according to Harrington, were so “hidden” and “invisible” that it took a crusading left-wing journalist to ferret…
…jobs in the U.S., most people assumed he was talking about net exports—that is, exports minus imports. A doubling of net exports would help fill the demand gap caused by…
…since 1970. Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain, South Africa, South…
…trial lawyers be members of the nefarious elite, while their spouses in corporate law firms were not? A Greased Chute, Not a Safety Net “Liberal elite” was always a political…
…surrounded us, the leaky net of those who were fishing, because now those have all been fished, you understand me? I don’t understand, the physician said, so, can you sleep…
…Having never been to your studio before and just doing internet research, I thought there would be more of a net emphasis to your work. I didn’t realize it was…