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  • BOOKREVIEW: Building an empire with religion, oil and debt

    BOOKREVIEW: Building an empire with religion, oil and debt

    May 12, 2006

    Author Kevin Phillips is back again with his “American Theocracy,” an especially informative historical, political and economic analysis of what he believes are the three major perils facing the U.S. today: “Reckless dependency on shrinking oil...

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  • Help

    Help

    May 12, 2006

    “When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody’s help in any way, But now these days are gone and I’m not so self assured, Now I find I’ve changed my mind,...

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  • Just one minute

    Just one minute

    May 12, 2006

    Just imagine, in one little minute you could have earned your whole year’s wages and then some, and had the rest of the year off to spend it. Crazy? Oh no! Exxon Mobil reported that it...

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  • Join a new mothers revolution

    Join a new mothers revolution

    May 12, 2006

    On Mother’s Day — the highly commercialized U.S. corporate version, not the antiwar vision of Juliet Ward Howe — we are bombarded with paeans about how worshipped, respected and revered Motherhood is in this country. A...

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  • S Se Puede means We Shall Overcome

    S Se Puede means We Shall Overcome

    May 12, 2006

    May 1, a day of worker celebration, began in the United States around the struggle for the eight-hour day. Now it is honored across the world, but largely ignored in the United States. How fitting then...

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