| Mar 4, 2010 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThis article was originally published in Common Dreams. Like Barack Obama, Avatar has become a Rorschach test for the times in which we live. Everyone interprets it their own way. Nominated for nine Oscars, it’s already the highest-grossing film of all...
| Mar 1, 2010 | Economy / BusinessThere’s an apology epidemic. If it’s not a corporate executive (Akiro Toyoda) then it’s an athlete (Tiger Woods, Mark McGuire) or a politician (Mark Sanford, John Edwards). People seem to require it; I don’t know why. It reminds me of A...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthSome marriages are made in heaven, some in hell. The matrimony of Billy Tauzin and Big Pharma was definitely hellish—especially for us innocent bystanders. Tauzin, a longtime Congress critter who became a lobbyist, is an old school wheeler-dealer. He reminds me...
| | Economy / BusinessHard to live On lousy pay; All the good jobs Went away. Returning from Haiti makes life in America look pretty sweet…briefly. Until you read the data. The poverty rate here is up to 12 percent, or 39 million people. Unemployment hovers around 10 percent (not...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen you’re cruising past the cable news channels, do you ever find yourself wondering who are those folks pontificating on TV chat shows? A new investigation provides some answers—along with lots of questions about what the cable channels are hiding from...
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