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Paul Buchheit , Op-Ed: 'Together' is the word that winner-take-all conservatives seem to forget. Even the richest and arguably most successful American, Bill Gates, owes most of his good fortune to the thousands of software and hardware designers who shaped the technological industry over a half-century or more. A careful analysis of his rise shows that he had luck, networking skills, and a timely sense of opportunism, even to the point of taking the work of competitors and adapting it as his own. 
Anthony Gucciardi, News Analysis: 'To find the incriminating information, Henry (the economist working for Christensen and the Tax Justice Network) actually utilized data from deep within the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, United Nations, and central banks to reach his final figure. Embedded in what could potentially be the largest and most publicized breaking story on the subject of large-scale tax evasion by the wealthy elite, Henry also found that the offshore tax havens are actually quote attractive to entire developing nations — not just major banks and ultra-rich families." 
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Op-Ed: "Every year there are 30,000 gun deaths and 300,000 gun-related assaults in the U.S. Firearm violence costs our country as much as $100 billion a year. Toys are regulated with greater care and safety concerns than guns. So why do we always act so surprised? Violence is our alter ego, wired into our Stone Age brains, so intrinsic its toxic eruptions no longer shock, except momentarily when we hear of a mass shooting like this latest in Colorado." 
Pat Garofalo, News Report: "The use of corporate tax havens costs the U.S. government about $60 billion annually. In order to make up for that lost revenue, the U.S. would have to charge every one of the nation's small businesses $2,116. It's likely no coincidence that the banks most focused on investment banking had more subsidiaries than commercial banks, as they're more likely to want to help their clients shift money around to low- or no-tax jurisdictions." 
Richard (RJ) Eskow, Op-Ed: "Many people assume that most minimum-wage employees work for small, family-owned businesses. But a new Data Brief from the National Employment Law Project finds that 66 percent of low-wage employees work for companies with more than 100 employees. That includes a handful of very large corporations which collectively employ nearly 8 million low-wage employees. The largest of those mega-corporations is, unsurprisingly, Wal-Mart, with 1,400,000 employees." 
Zach Toombs, News Report: Both as a candidate and as president, Obama has made the passage of the test ban treaty a keynote issue in his nuclear security policy. During the 2008 election campaign, he promised to reach out to the Senate to ratify the treaty "at the earliest practical date." In April 2009 in Prague, the president told an international audience his administration would "immediately and aggressively pursue U.S. ratification" of the treaty. 
Amy Goodman, Video Report: He now works with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "It is beyond time to talk about solutions," Goddard says. "This conversation should've happened before the shooting in the first place. ... The missing piece [is] in place -- public outrage -- and it has to be focused directly to your representatives, because they are the ones, literally, with bills at their fingertips right now." 
Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed: A primary domestic task has always been "to keep [the public] from our throats," as essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson described the concerns of political leaders when the threat of democracy was becoming harder to suppress in the mid-nineteenth century. More recently, the activism of the 1960s elicited elite concerns about "excessive democracy," and calls for measures to impose "more moderation" in democracy. 
Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: "Take the tomato, truly a natural wonder. Agribusiness profiteers, however, wanted it to do unnatural things, so — voila — the genetic tamperers dutifully produced the Amazing Industrial Tomato. It's a techno-marvel made to endure long-distance shipping, be artificially ripened to appear tomato-y red on a schedule that suits agribusiness giants, and last an ungodly amount of time without rotting. But taste? Forget it. There's more flavor in the carton." 
Joe Conason, Op-Ed: The last big plot promoted by Kincaid was the "bipartisan" scheme to portray the "murder" of Clinton White House counsel Vince Foster as a suicide. Among the conspirators fingered by Kincaid in this alleged cover-up was the Republican independent counsel Kenneth Starr, best known for his dogged, intemperate, $50 million effort to remove President Clinton from office. --
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