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Fracking Boom Slouching Toward Bust
Reprinted from Common Dreams (under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License) By Richard Heinberg Stop me if you’ve heard this one. What’s an obscenity that starts with “f” and ends with...
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On this Labor Day, Let’s Remember What Unions Have Done for America
Reprinted from Fabius Maximus (under Creative Commons License) by Fabius Maximus Summary: On this Labor Day let’s revisit the lost history of the union movement, and its vital contribution to building...
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Obama’s Washington is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Middle East
Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com By Bob Dreyfuss Put in context, the simultaneous raids in Libya and Somalia last month, targeting an alleged al-Qaeda fugitive and an alleged kingpin of...
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How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme —...
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com The Empire Strikes Back How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme — Again By Laura Gottesdiener You can hardly turn on...
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City Needs Comprehensive Development Plan Centered Around the “Real Gold in...
By Bruce Herring Much ado lately in local press and other spheres concerning the future of Grass Valley. Citizens, elected officials, print journalists, bloggers, and other characters have bandied...
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Carbon Delirium: The Last Stage of Fossil-Fuel Addiction
Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com By Michael Klare Of all the preposterous, irresponsible headlines that have appeared on the front page of the New York Times in recent years, few have...
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The Worst of Nevada County in National News, Again
Why is that only the worst of Nevada County — in this case another right-wing gun nut — makes the national news? Esteemed journalist and historian Rick Perlstein, writing in Salon, found occasion to...
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Fringe Climate Skeptics Wield Undue Influence on Rural Public Policy
By Steve Frisch I have been thinking a lot about our regional climate change skeptics in the Sierra Nevada and their impact on public policy. Occasionally I do my share of getting into debates and...
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“A Great Leader Doesn’t Just Occupy The Middle Ground”
Here are some tough words about the Obama presidency from Cornell West, who argues persuasively that the fetish for the middle ground in politics often makes for poor leadership. In the interview...
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How the New York Times Enables Economic Illiteracy (Austerity)
Reprinted from the New Economic Perspectives blog at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Editor’s Note: William K. Black, author of “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One,” is Associate Professor...
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Eric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn’t Behind Bars
Reprinted from The Center for Economic and Policy Research under a Creative Commons License By Dean Baker The big news item in Washington last week was Attorney General Eric Holder decision to resign....
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Internet’s Impact on Print Media Only Part of the Story
Playwright Alena Smith, describing the faded fortunes of American playwrights, notices that the impact of the Internet extends far beyond the print media: This is what happens to “old media,” after all...
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Another Economic Crash is Coming
Economist Ross Ashcroft (in this 4-minute video) correctly points out that the most important warning sign of an impending crash is the level of private (household and business) debt as a percentage of...
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West Coast Port Slowdown Impacts Nevada County Businesses
By Don Pelton When we arranged with the local tree experts and altogether good people at Trees Unlimited to fell about a half dozen large ponderosas on our property and have them trucked to a mill, we...
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This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Raised the Minimum Wage. Now,...
By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News The next time your right-wing family member or former high school classmate posts a status update or tweet about how taxing the rich or increasing workers’ wages...
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Tomgram: Gottesdiener and Garcia, How to Dismantle This Country
Introductory Comments by Tom Engelhardt (Reprinted from Tomdispatch.com) They say that imperial wars come home in all sorts of ways. Think of the Michigan that TomDispatch regular Laura Gottesdiener...
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Thomas Frank: How the Democrats Created a “Liberalism of the Rich”
By Thomas Frank, author of the just-published Listen, Liberal, or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (Metropolitan Books) from which this essay is adapted. He has also written Pity the...
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A Fukushima on the Hudson? The Growing Dangers of Indian Point
By Ellen Cantarow and Alison Rose Levy Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com It was a beautiful spring day and, in the control room of the nuclear reactor, the workers decided to deactivate...
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