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The Really Creepy People Behind the Libertarian-Inspired Billionaire Sea Castles

Mark Ames, AlterNet. June 2, 2010.

The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they've plundered at a safe distance.

Naomi Klein: How Socialism Protected Chileans from Earthquake Fall-out

Naomi Klein, The Nation. March 4, 2010.

Wall Street Journal columnist makes an attempt to rewrite history that Chile's "free-market" dictator Augusto Pinochet can be thanked for preventing destruction there.

Ben Bernanke's Bad Teachers

Gerald Friedman, Dollars and Sense. July 29, 2009.

Bernanke has conducted an economic policy as cruel as it has been ineffective. But the blame here lies squarely on the economics profession.

The Futility of Drug Prohibition

Kevin Zeese, Freedom's Phoenix. December 13, 2006.

The government's war on drugs is never-ending. Instead of enforcing drug prohibition, we should be spending money on treatment and rehab.