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The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
Thanks to the giant transnational corporations that own them, mainstream media outlets tailor their programming to appease their corporate backers.
Wednesday: Community Groups, Elected Officials Gather in Albany For Press Conference and Rally to Demand Legislators Fix Broken Marijuana Possession Law
On Wednesday, May 22nd, members of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus will gather with commuity groups to demand an end to the …
Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide
DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy today released the results of a year-long investigation: "Dissent or Terror: How the Nation's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With …
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The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers’ Rights
While the GOP in Congress blocks National Labor Relations Board nominees, thereby incapacitating the agency, the DC Circuit Court ruling absolving employers from posting the rule of the land …
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Afghanistan War May End by 2024…Maybe
Hamid Karzai has let the Pentagon's cat out of the bag - to the displeasure of the Obama Administration. The Afghan president revealed inside information about President Obama's war …
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Reasoning with and Resisting Arne Duncan’s Education Reform Agenda: Scribbling Lines in the Sand
There are times when a line in the sand can shift the course of a life – or of history. At other times a line in the sand may …
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Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
Hundreds of foreclosed homeowners and housing rights activists rallied outside the Justice Department on Monday, May 20, to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute the Wall Street bankers …
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Global Capital and the Nation State
At a time when you'd expect nations to band together to gain bargaining power against global capital, the opposite is occurring: xenophobia is breaking out all over.
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Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its “Verify the Recall” Effort in Wisconsin
The Texas-based Tea Party group True the Vote is claiming they were one of the groups inappropriately “targeted” by the IRS since their application for charitable status has been …
Austerity Comes to America
Gerald Friedman: The ghost of bad austerity economics continues to haunt - and even to drive - the living.