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Concentrated, Privatized Wealth or Shared Prosperity and Economic Democracy?
It is going to take action from below to create an economy that puts people and the planet before profits.
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No More Second Chances for Larry Summers
William Grieder: If Obama chooses Larry Summers for Federal Reserve chairman, Wall Street wins again.
Collapsing Investment and the Great Recession
Economics professor Gerald Friedman illustrates the links between collapsing investment and the Great Recession.
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An American Reckoning
In the aftershock of the Boston bombings, there's only two possible avenues of response: revenge, or reckoning.
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US Embassy, DEA Obstructing Investigation Into Drug War Killings in Honduras
The failure to provide answers about what happened last year has shed light on the DEA's questionable methods.
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How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – and What to Do About It
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.
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Time to Send the Crony Banksters to Jail
This morning, in one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S. history, a federal grand jury indicted SAC Capital Advisors, a major hedge fund worth $15 billion dollars, …
Political Dreaming in the Twenty-First Century: Where Has It Gone?
Itu2019s time to try a different approach - to keep feeling and voicing what Martin Luther King, Jr., called u201cthe fierce urgency of now.u201d
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Obama Administration Will Fight to Restore Voting Rights Act
The first challenge will be in Texas, where lawmakers are challenging Texas's redistricting plan based on the 2010 census.
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
Ask the NSA, as part of a freedom of information request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesnu2019t have the …