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Factory Farms Are Animal Concentration Camps
Jim Hightower on why the chicken really crossed the road - and the high price of cheap food.
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How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
Social movements must bring the creative energy of protest culture to electoral campaigns.
As Fiscal Abyss Approaches, Some Cliff Notes on Washington
Legislators are likely to punt the deadline for cuts to the new Congress.
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Let’s Get to Work
Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to require our attention for the next four years and beyond: the national election repudiated religious conservatives …
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The Presidential Election Exposed, Again, the Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges: It's a useless appendage to the corporate state.
Did Big Money Really Lose This Election? Hardly
After the most money-drenched elections in history — with close to $6 billion spent on the 2012 presidential and Congressional races alone, by one estimate — big donors and …
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Obama’s Audacity of Terror against Pakistan
Acts of terror that strikes fear in the hearts and minds of people, such as unexpected and secretive deadly drone strikes, are always wars against hope. But not only …
So, What Now? Five Racial Justice Thinkers Make Sense of the Election
There was less swagger, but arguably more urgency as millions of people headed to the polls this week to re-elect President Barack Obama.
Americans Pressure Congress to Make Top 2% and Corporations Pay their Fair Share and Reject “Grand Bargains” that include Massive Across-the-Board Budget Cuts
Starting today through November 14, everyday people across the country – families living in shelters since Hurricane Sandy, clergy, family farmers, people living with AIDS/HIV, and others – are …
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Exposing the Roots of Genetically Modified Crops: The Monsanto Factor
This week's Progressive Pick is by Institute for Responsible Technology head and Big Ag watchdog Jeffrey M. Smith.