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Corporate Profits and the Real Dangers Behind the H1N1 Virus

Wednesday, 16 December 2009 11:47 John Horvath
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ImageAs in most other areas of the world, Hungarians feel that the H1N1 virus is nothing more than a scare campaign in order to help generate profits for multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Sadly, this view is often reinforced by some sobering facts.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 13:08
 

Liberal Arts Education and the Growing Class Divide

Monday, 11 January 2010 13:18 Valerie Saturen
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Antioch College
In light of rising costs, students fear liberal arts degrees are not worth the price tag. Consequently, interest in the liberal arts and humanities is on the wane, and the education they provide runs the risk of becoming restricted to elites who are rich in capital-cultural and otherwise.
Last Updated on Monday, 11 January 2010 13:22
 

Consumers Are Sleeping With the Enemy

Monday, 01 March 2010 14:25 Sandy LeonVest
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ImageAnyone whose mission it is to 'control the masses' knows it all begins with good marketing. Public relations aficionado Edward Bernays understood that. One of the country's original PR flacks, Bernays is perhaps best known for forging the decades-long marketing alliance between the AMA and the tobacco industry. The 'Father of Spin,' as he is known, also played a major role in the marketing and selling of the First World War to the American public with his now infamous slogan, "Making the World Safe for Democracy."

Last Updated on Monday, 01 March 2010 14:26
 

Beer Battles: Workers in Belgium Take on Brewing Giant

Thursday, 04 February 2010 10:44 Benjamin Dangl
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Brewery Workers at Road Blockade*
For two weeks in January Belgian brewery workers blocked roads, set fire to beer crates, kidnapped managers and handed out free beer as part of their tactics against job cuts proposed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer. The company announced the cuts in spite of profits of $1.55 billion in the third quarter of 2009. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," Roger Van Vlasselaer, the leader of a major Belgian union said.

Last Updated on Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:19
 

Bad Aid: Throw Your Arms Around the World

Tuesday, 06 April 2010 00:00 Vijay Prashad
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ImageIn December 1984, I walked into the HMV store on London's Oxford Street to spend a little discretionary money on an LP. Other albums drew me, but one had an advantage. It combined the talents of all the major "Top of the Pops" singers onto one song. Given the standards of British pop at the time (leaving aside Scritti Politti's "Jacques Derrida" and perhaps the Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy"), the diminishing marginal returns at the cash register were held in check with only one purchase. It had to be Bob Geldof's Do They Know It's Christmas?
Last Updated on Monday, 05 April 2010 12:03
 
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