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Corporate Cluster Bomb Over U.S. Sovereignty

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 29, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also very unhappy with senators like Elizabeth Warren, activist groups like Public Citizen, unions like the Communications Workers of America and … well, with the majority of us Americans who oppose the establishment’s latest free-trade scam. Despite its benign name, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a cluster bomb of legalized “gotchas” that won’t bode well for the vast majority of Americans […]

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Summer In The City

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 29, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH What is a major league baseball game without any fans there to cheer? No one selling hot dogs, no one hawking programs, no need for any ushers. Welcome to Baltimore, where the first two games of a three-game series were postponed and the third is to be played with no people, lest what should be a sporting event degenerate into a race riot. And so, in the spring of 2015, we add […]

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Gingrich Is Right: Double Medical Research Budget

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 28, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP Newt Gingrich recently recalled the bipartisan deal that doubled the budget for the National Institutes of Health – with fondness. This was about 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans under Gingrich had just taken over Congress. Never a member of the Gingrich fan club, I nonetheless join other liberal-minded observers in hailing the former House speaker not only for not disowning that investment in national greatness but for […]

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‘Dr. Evil’ Turns Out To Be ‘Dr. Silly’

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 22, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Big Oil, labor exploiters, industrial food factories, frackers and other corporate profiteers have been paying a lot of money to a man that celebrates himself “Dr. Evil” – the scourge of all progressive groups! But Rick Berman is not a doctor, not evil and not a scourge. While he is a wholly unprincipled little man, he’s just a self-serving huckster who grubs for corporate dollars by offering to do their dirty PR […]

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Congress Acts

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 21, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Has a fever come over Washington? It seems like every time I turned around last week, Congress – or at least some subset of it – was actually doing something. Was it just Thursday that they were agreeing to let the president try to negotiate within the framework of a nuclear deal with Iran? And then, barely hours later, the Senate committees that write tax bills agreed to give the president “fast […]

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