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Election Countdown 2012: Sanitation Workers Refuse to Stop Picketing for the Democratic National Convention and More
In this week's Election Countdown: Its a young crowd at this year's Repuplican National Convention as headliners are barely in their forties; Georgia has to borrow federal funding …
Social Security and Medicare on the Chopping Block
Despite the many expressed fears that the Apocalypse awaits us and the alarmist predictions that we are about to go over the proverbial cliff when it comes to funding …
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My Visit to a London Embassy Under Threat
On Friday, I visited Ecuador's embassy here in the capital of the former British empire and saw a building surrounded by a phalanx of cops, with several of them …
New Report Documents Fiscal Impact of Amendment 64, the Initiative to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol
Nearly $60 Million Saved and Generated for Colorado in First Year; Up to $120 Million in New Revenue and Savings Projected after 2017
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Romney’s Policy on Latin America: Not Much to Look at
Impressed with Republican Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's international credentials? Veronica Salas explains why voters might want to take a second look.
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Blame Flies Over Police Massacre of 34 South African Miners
New viral video shows footage of police opening fire on striking miners in South Africa.
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Walmart, Right-Wing Media Company Hold Star-Studded Benefit Promoting Education Reform Film
The reform being pushed is one of the model bills pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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Detroit’s Wayne State University Looks to Destroy Tenure
A Detroit university attempts to shift tenure policies to a format that would effectively remove peer review and centralize the power to terminate faculty in administratorsu2019 hands.
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Robert Reich: The Fanatical GOP
Although the GOP lurch to the right-wing margin of America may bode well for Democrats this coming Election Day, it bodes ill for America.
Real Remedies for the Foreclosure Crisis Exist: The Game-Changing Implications of Bain v. MERS
MERS is the electronic smokescreen that allowed banks to build their securitization Ponzi scheme without worrying about details like ownership and chain of title.