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Mapping Global Wealth
Despite our global economic hard times, the world has more than enough wealth to ensure every adult on the planet a significant nest egg.
Reaching the Boiling Point
President Barack Obama recently announced plans to modernize our crumbling roads, rails, and airports while providing jobs for the construction industry. While we certainly need to fix our nation’s transportation infrastructure, there’s another form of infrastructure begging for a similar level of attention in the United States: that for our water.
I’m a Genetic Lottery Winner–Tax Me!
I am one of those lucky Americans who won the genetic lottery. That is, I was born rich. And believe it or not, my family’s business success happened because of–not in spite of–our country’s progressive tax system.
Public TV? It Would Be a Good Idea
Asked by a reporter what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi supposedly replied, “I think it would be a good idea.” The same could be said about U.S. public television.
The Year of the Screwball
This is going to go down as the Year of the Screwball Election. Never before have so many nutcases, whackos, and practicing lunatics come out of their caves to run for public office.
Is Free Speech just for Corporations?
The big brand-name corporations love advertising. They love it so much that they spend some $170 billion a year in our country to put all sorts of slicken and hokum on their products, and on their own public image.
Tax the Rich
Taxes, like death, may be certain. Unlike death they can be finagled.
Private Broadcasting
The Lineup: Week of October 18-24, 2010
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package.
Who Cleans the Windows of Glass Houses?
It turns out that Lou Dobbs has employed undocumented workers to toil on his estates and tend to his family’s numerous horses. According to a recent investigative report in The Nation, the poster boy for the anti-immigrant crowd said he was told the workers were legal immigrants. What he didn’t say, as he did in April 2006, was that “employers who hire illegal aliens should face felony charges.” Perhaps Dobbs is getting tips from Meg Whitman.
