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This Country Needs a Few Good Communists – Chris Hedges

Hope in this age of bankrupt capitalism will come with the return of the language of class conflict. It does not mean we have to agree with Karl Marx, but we have to speak in his vocabulary.

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This Country Needs a Few Good Communists – Chris Hedges

Five Reasons Obama Should Take Over BP – Truthdig

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes, If the government can take over giant global insurer AIG and the auto giant General Motors and replace their CEOs, in order to keep them financially solvent, it should be able to put BPs north American operations into temporary receivership in order to stop one of the worst environmental disasters

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Five Reasons Obama Should Take Over BP – Truthdig