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Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
Ninety-Two Year Old Woman Loses Right to Vote Due to Expired Drivers License in Alabama
Polling place Photo ID voter suppression laws work. Alabama has proved that once again over the past 24 hours.
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Should We Fight the System or Be the Change?
Should we push for transformation within existing institutions, or should we model in our own lives a different set of political relationships that might someday form the basis of …
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Lawmakers Push Back Against Administration’s Failed Latin America Policy
In a remarkable eruption of sanity in Washington, there is finally some pushback from Congress against the far-right and “center” on US policy toward Venezuela and Latin America — …
Leading Alarmist on Iran Ignored What He Knew Was True
David Albright, the primary nonofficial source in reporting that Iran presents a nuclear weapons threat, has acted more like a functionary in a political apparatus than as an independent …
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New Report Documents How Privatization Steals Wages, Harms Communities
A new report from the nonprofit research group In the Public Interest shows that outsourcing public services hurts middle and working class communities as well as workers.
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Economy Adds 217,000 Jobs in May; Unemployment Stable at 6.3 Percent
The index of hours worked past its pre-recession peak for the first time in May.
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State Senate Leader Reacts to Center Report, Urging Counsel for Truants
GOP leader involved in national movement to reform school discipline policies.
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Opposing Local Hawaii Law, Big Agribusiness Confuses GMO Regulations With Same-Sex Marriage Discrimination
What do same-sex marriage and genetically-engineered soybeans have in common? Nothing, but big agribusiness is banking on a federal judge in Hawaii to make the connection.
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Communism – Yes! But for Whom?
The recent FCC proposal to end net neutrality illustrates the trend toward corporate communism, but a social communism is what needs to be rehabilitated.