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January's Lowdown

Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood--the cooperative movement shows us how

We're being told by today's High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our society's economic affairs, including the terms of employment and production.


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Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America

December 2011 // Main article
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Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive

August 2010 // Main article
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HOW TO MAKE CHILDBIRTH MORE PAINFUL

July 2010 // Commentary
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Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power

May 2009 // Main article
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Time for real workplace democracy-- not the phony company version

March 2009 // Main article
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DoSomething!

February 2009 // Do something
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Team Obama's plan for Afghanistan is a disaster in search of a strategy

February 2009 // Main article
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BAN CLUSTER BOMBS

January 2009 // Commentary
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TIME TO FREE UP OUR FREEDOMS

August 2008 // Commentary
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THE PRICE OF SHRIMP

June 2008 // Commentary
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