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One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine, A Response to the Attacks | Naomi Klein view story
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But this has been no ordinary book tour. Everywhere I have traveled– from Calgary, Alberta to Cochabamba, Bolivia – I have heard more stories about how shock strategies have been used to impose unwanted pro-corporate policies. I have also been part of
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Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism? view story
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Shared capitalism aims to motivate employees by giving them a greater financial stake in their companies. Recent research shows that many workers do not know about or understand such plans. How can such plans work if employees don’t know they exist?
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North Korea uses Doubles to Hide Death Of North Korea's Leader Kim Jong-Il view story
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Is Kim Jong-il for real? The question has baffled foreign intelligence agencies for years but now a veteran Japanese expert on North Korea says the dear leader is actually dead ? and his role is played by a double.
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Mortgage Crisis Has Washington Putting Aside Free-Market Ideology view story
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The effort to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is only the latest in a series of financial maneuvers by the government that stretch back to the rescue of the military contractor Lockheed Aircraft and the Penn Central Railroad under President Richard Nixon,
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Obama's Verbal Slip Fuels His Critics: "My Muslim Faith" view story
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Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."
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Eugenics At The Olympics view story
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Remembering the 1904 games, where Indians, Pygmies, and other "savages" faced off in the interest of science.
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Intelligent Hallucinations & Other Masterpieces Of Misdirection... view photo
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"Our picture of the world is kind of a virtual reality," says Ronald A. Rensink, a professor of computer science and psychology at the University of British Columbia. "It's a form of intelligent hallucination."
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7 Powerful Habits for Happy Living view story
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Here are 7 powerful habits to imtprove overall life especially for the mind and the body.
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Globalisation As The Great Unbundling(s): What Should Governments Do? view story
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Today’s globalisation is operating with higher resolution. It is not enough to think of skill groups and sectors; the impact is more unpredictable, sudden and individual than in the past. This column assesses how high-resolution globalisation differs an
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Sarah Palin and Mark Halperin's Complaints of 'Liberal Media' view story
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The very notion of the "Liberal Media" is one of the most inane myths in American politics -- something spat out and repeated in the lowest right-wing sewers for so long that it has become conventional wisdom -- but Halperin's frequent vouching for that m

