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The Compelling Conclusion About Capitalism That Piketty Resists
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fUDKYYWYCEDj1jFMVzqjuZ1r9J%2Bjw2Nb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Hurry Up and Wait: Bashing the VA</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Douglas Jamiel, Truthout:</strong> Have national misgivings toward conflicts since World War II found their way into budgeting for the VA, the agency tasked with caring for the less-fêted soldiers who prosecuted these ill-conceived engagements, or is ideology preventing proper funding of the most efficient health care system in the United States?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hyd91jNDxsX%2FMCXKbJW5451r9J%2Bjw2Nb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Boehner Lawsuit: The Caucus Room Conspiracy Continues</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> This week, Speaker of the House John Boehner emphatically announced that he was planning to sue President Obama, claiming that Obama has "exceeded his authority." This is simply a GOP tactic to prevent Obama from doing anything meaningful for the American people.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Mary Anne Hitt, OtherWords:</strong> Every state should concentrate its carbon-reduction efforts on truly renewable energy alternatives. Let's create more productive jobs in industries that don't pollute our air and water or disrupt the climate.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>John LaForge, Consortium News:</strong> Over the past two dozen years, the massive damage that the United States has inflicted on Iraq's population, infrastructure and environment includes residue from American "depleted uranium" weapons, which can cause cancer and other illnesses.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MSTC4OYHbplvttcL3jfgnJ1r9J%2Bjw2Nb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Shredding the Fourth Amendment in the Post-Constitutional US: Four Ways It No Longer Applies</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch:</strong> Americans are told (and often believe) that they retain rights they no longer have. Citizens passively watch their rights disappear in the service of dark ends, largely without protest and often while still celebrating a land that no longer exists.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>John Clay, Arbeitskammer:</strong> At a time when Americans are looking abroad for alternative economic strategies to rebalance our unequal economy, some worker advocates in Germany are asking if an American form of cooperative enterprise might be the way to economic independence.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> Germany manages to be an export powerhouse despite its very high labor costs. How do the Germans do it? Not by constantly coming out with revolutionary new products, but by producing very high-quality goods, for which people are willing to pay premium prices.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8aYQ5HxYTrJ%2FHTLdrXH5b51r9J%2Bjw2Nb" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout:</strong> Updates on health economics; Mississippi political lessons; and what's wrong with a Harvard economist. Wolff interviews Victor Wallis on the economics and politics of US prisons. Response to questions about the gender wage gap, real estate bubbles and the "ultra rich."</p>
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