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Author: Madonna Gauding

Madonna Gauding is a freelance writer, illustrator and book designer living in St. Louis. MO. She is the author of 10 books on a variety of "mind, body, spirit" topics.

$15 minimum wage? Not a problem, says Seatac WA

September 18, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Labor and unions, Poverty Leave a comment

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the

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Council on Foreign Relations: West is responsible for Ukraine crisis

September 4, 2014 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, International, War Leave a comment

Given the ongoing, ludicrous, and mostly fictional coverage of Ukraine in the American media that relentlessly depicts Vladimir Putin as an evil, crazed, aggressive,

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10 reasons why school vouchers should be rejected

August 21, 2014 Madonna Gauding Education, Privatization 2 comments

Republicans are for school vouchers because they want to privatize public education, turn education into a money making venture, and use taxpayer money to fund religious schools. Some

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Ferguson MO in context: The militarization of the police

August 12, 2014 Madonna Gauding Police One comment

When a Ferguson, Missouri police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, the neighborhood erupted, and area police departments were quickly on

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Bob’s Red Mill owner gives company to employees

August 6, 2014 Madonna Gauding Business Leave a comment

Bob Moore, a retired automobile service manager and advocate of healthy eating, founded Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods with his wife Charlee, in 1978.

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Which country is the greatest threat to world peace?

July 29, 2014 Madonna Gauding Congress, Obama, Terrorism, Uncategorized, War Leave a comment

At the close of 2013, WIN/Gallup published the results of a massive world opinion poll in which they asked over 66,000 people from 65

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Alternative views on Ukraine and the downing of MH-17

July 25, 2014 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, War Leave a comment

For more credible views on current events, I look to independent scholars and independent investigative journalists who are not employed by corporate media, either

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Iraq: Who is behind ISIS?

July 7, 2014 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Uncategorized, War 3 comments

Mainstream media tells us that ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) is a sort of “al Qaeda Gone Wild”—an army of well-equipped,

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Dangerous beliefs: US moral superiority and our right to world hegemony

June 19, 2014 Madonna Gauding Banks, Campaigns, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Obama, Politics, War 3 comments

[by Madonna Gauding] In the windowless rooms of American corporate media, the assumption of U.S. hegemony is echoed on the alphabet TV channels and

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Jackson, Mississippi rising

June 10, 2014 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Economy, Employment, Good government, Infrastructure One comment

Six years after the 2008 economic meltdown, the overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. and the E.U are still struggling. Most people know

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