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A Presidential Run for Bernie Sanders? Bill and Ted’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure
Attempting to build the broad-based progressive coalition we need through the electoral arena is a quixotic adventure virtually destined to fail.
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When Capitalism Fails, a Job Should Still Be a Right
Every American should have the right to a good-paying job that lets them provide for themselves and their families.
Austerity Is Crap
Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …
College Athletes’ Academic Cheating A Harbinger of A Failed System
Academic standards for college athletes should be raised, and sports scholarship programs should be ended.
Organic Consumers Association Responds to FDA Push for Voluntary GMO Labeling and Safety Claims
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to drop its plan to finalize guidance on the voluntary labeling of genetically modified …
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Social Movements Need To Be Aware of Corporate Influence and Opportunists
Activists should learn from Occupy about the dangers of being co opted.
Medical Marijuana Dropped from State Budget, Leaving Patients to Suffer
On Saturday, Governor Cuomo, Speaker Sheldon Silver, and Senate Co-Presidents Dean Skelos and Jeffrey Klein announced that they had reach a budget agreement, but the deal excluded the Compassionate …
Stress Tests, Lending, and Capital Requirements
Despite the much-publicized black eye to Citigroup's management, the bottom line of the Federal Reserve's stress tests is that every other large U.S. bank will be allowed to pay …
Democratic Despair
The latest municipal elections in France have been analyzed and interpreted as a rebuff for the so-called “socialist” President Hollande.
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Is It Time To Charge People With Ecocide?
Our public officials, elected representatives and business leaders could all be guilty of crimes against humanity.