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The Missing ‘Humanity Clause’ At Bain

Arnold Hamilton - January 12, 2012 0

BY FROMA HARROP During the Great Depression, my father toiled in a box factory. The workers were all flat broke, he recalled, and desperate for every nickel. But when overtime hours appeared, the men made sure they went to a guy with kids. The laborers were obeying the unwritten and unenforceable “humanity clause,” whereby one […]

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Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again

Arnold Hamilton - January 12, 2012 2

BY RALPH NADER The same neocons who persuaded George W. Bush and crew to, in Ron Paul’s inimitable words, “lie their way into invading Iraq”...

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Afghanistan Forever. And Ever. And Ever.

Arnold Hamilton - January 11, 2012 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Oh, to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom! If you need a symbol of how America’s decade-long war is going in this faraway land, look no farther than the beautiful fields of red poppies flowering so bountifully there. Unfortunately, that bounty symbolizes a failure of an ambitious Western […]

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Echoes Of World War II In Normandy

Arnold Hamilton - January 11, 2012 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH No one told me that January is the wrong time to visit Normandy [until afterwards, that is]. Most of the places we went to visit were closed. It was cold and wet and rainy. It took more than three hours each way. But I haven’t been to France in 15 years, and […]

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Back To The Dark Ages

Arnold Hamilton - January 11, 2012 3

BY WANDA JO STAPLETON I watched with interest the recent presidential debates in New Hampshire as candidates pandered to extreme right-wingers. First, Mitt Romney dodged questions...