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C Wright Mills

"Moderate" Politicians, "Defense" Spending and Other Orwellian Nonsense

Norman Solomon | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics
Read More: Eisenhower, Wall Street, C. Wright Mills, Moderates, Military Spending, Mary Jo White, Obama, Anti-Life, Pro-Life, Defense Spending, Securities and Exchange Commission, Politics News
Norman Solomon

"Pro-life" values? Not a label that abortion-rights advocates should use for opponents of a woman's right to choose an abortion. One of the main reasons those opponents keep calling themselves "pro-life" is they want to imply that supporters of abortion rights are anti-life. Why help?

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C. Wright Mills Would Have Loved Occupy Wall Street

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.30.2012 | Politics
Read More: Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, C. Wright Mills, Class Warfare, The Power Elite, Middle Class, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Few Occupy Wall Street activists have probably heard of Mills. But Mills' breakthrough ideas -- especially his notion of the "power elite" -- resonate today with the growing recognition that too much wealth and power in the hands of the superrich undermines democracy.

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Is There a Continuity of Administrations?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Andy Cuomo, Cog, C WrighT Mills, Carl Oglesby, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Danny Schechter

The sad truth is, given what he has to deal with, and hard as it is to swallow, perhaps Obama can't be all that different.

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