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What These Imitation Foods Are Actually Made Of

Brian Boone Daily Meal
In order to get as many people as possible to buy their products, food companies often employ labeling which is misleading. A high number of commonly purchased items are actually other, less attractive, cheaper, or lab-created foods in disguise.

Capitalism’s Fascist Temptation

Dave Anderson Boulder Weekly
MAGA mega-donor Peter Thiel, the leading Silicon Valley libertarian who promoted cryptocurrency and floating tax refuges beyond the reach of government, wrote in 2009 that democracy is no longer compatible with freedom

House Leadership Delays Social Security Expansion

Lee Harris The American Prospect
Nancy Pelosi’s office is blocking Social Security expansion, while Congress prepares to pass a windfall for rich retirees, insurance companies, and large asset managers like Vanguard and Fidelity.

DeJoy Moves To Consolidate USPS Facilities

Jake Johnson Common Dreams
'A True Danger to the Public Post Office', "How many post offices will be closed?" asked one union official. "How many clerks and drivers will lose jobs?"

My Seventy Years and the Departed GDR

Victor Grossman Portside
I defected to the GDR 70 years ago, finding neither Utopia nor the hunger, poverty and misery American media might have led me to expect. I hope that new generations learn from the GDR, and not only from its blunders, nasty habits and limitations.