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A New Revolution-Lilipoh Interviews Nicanor Perlas
Today, with the increasing dominance of global economic systems and a few superpowers, both supported by propaganda masquerading as mass media, a revolution can occur without the usual external appearance of a state takeover.
Follow the Money
Eliot Spitzer’s insurance probe promises to shake up business as usual in the $1 trillion industry -- and in Albany, where campaign finance reform may be the only solution to the problem.
Shady Customers: How S&L Suspects Profit From the Crisis
The same unscrupulous real estate developers and high-flying financiers who built low-quality, see-through office buildings and unneeded condos across the country are now poised to buy foreclosed properties from the government at fire-sale prices.
A New Meaning for Car Wash
Forget "Miami Vice" and high-speed chases on cigar boats and shootouts with South American thugs armed with semiautomatic weapons.The really heavy federal drug enforcement artillery is now being trained on suburban car salesmen."
Have Guns, Will Travel
Who Is Richard Brenneke and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About George Bush and the October Surprise?
The Trillion Dollar Hole in America's Stocking Part 2
Over the Past Decade a Republican White House, With the Help of a Democratic Congress, Has Dismantled FDR's Vision of the American Dream. Now We're in for a Dickens of a Christmas.
A Depleted Legacy
The story of the long twilight struggle that ended government subsidized housing in Houston.
The Clipper Threat
Bill Clinton promised voters in 1992 that he would shrink the defense budget, reorder Cold War priorities and rein in America's undercover warriors who had sold guns to the Ayatollah, supported an illegal Nicaraguan war, bankrolled Manuel Noriega and secretly armed Saddam Hussein.
Privacy in the Digital Age
Welcome to the digital frontier, where network by network, metaphor by metaphor, a splendid, global, multimedia palace is being built through trial and error.
Houston and the Toad Queen
To the city's social elite, Teresa Rodriguez seemed to talk sense. Did she also talk them out of $30 million?
Mr. Greenspan's Sleight of Hand
Depending on how money is defined, the nation's supply is either flat or running out of control. The confusion may be intentional.
California's Energy Crisis – Who's to Blame?
California's new $10 billion energy bailout plan is being greeted with skepticism by both industry experts and consumer groups. That’s not surprising because the state of California, which has already proven itself to be “the gang that couldn’t deregulate”, has rushed to implement an emergency plan that looks increasingly like a band-aid on a severe gut-shot wound.