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Picket, Fight, and Win
Solidarity networks scale down to defend tenants and workers.
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Rip-Off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor
The most pernicious myth in American politics holds that only around half the population pays taxes.
Capitalism and Unemployment
What if capitalists were not allowed to layoff whom they choose, but all workers were required to cut their hours for the benefit of the unemployed and underemployed, suggests …
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TPP Disclosure Shows It Will Kill People and Internet; House Opposition Is Widespread
A recent Wikileaks disclosure could well have struck the fatal blow to this toxic trade pact.
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Americans’ Personal Data Shared With CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe
US agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no …
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How Can the States Provide Fourth Amendment Protection Against the NSA?
States have the authority to defy federal NSA surveillance policy, based on anticommandeering doctrine, and are being urged to do so by the civil liberties community.
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What Do We Treasure? A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger spoke at the opening of the exhibition
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The Confidence Fairy and Gnome, Debunked
Paul Krugman: Count me in as someone who believes that macroeconomics - at least of the Keynesian variety - has actually worked pretty well these past five years.
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India’s GOP Voiceless in the 2014 Elections
India's Grand Old Party is not naming its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections, nor touting its very real accomplishments while in power. Why?
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A Trail of Tears: How Veterans Return From America’s Wars
An excerpt from Ann Jones's new book, ‘They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars - The Untold Story.’