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Former Obama Adviser: Focus on US Inequality in Election-Year State of the Union Has Occupy Wall Street’s Imprint
In his last State of the Union speech before the November election, President Obama defended his record addressing the financial crisis and called for greater economic fairness. He warned …
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Jim Hightower | Politicos Are Stealing the People’s Property
“Sorry, we're closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across the country, as governors and legislators are cutting off funds …
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Obama: No Retreat, No Surrender
Ashington - It was to be expected that in the course of his State of the Union address, President Obama would mention the killing of Osama bin Laden, whose …
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Warning: High Frequency
Consider this story: It’s January 1990, during the pioneer build-out of mobile phone service. A cell tower goes up 800 feet from the house of Alison Rall, in Mansfield, …
Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent
While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties marched into the state’s election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott …
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USDA Ignores Pesticide Ravaging Bee Population, Threatening Global Environment
It has recently been reported that certain research was suppressed concerning the bee decline which has been occurring over the past few years. It seems that the large sum …
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Egypt Today, One Year Later: A Revolution Revisited
One year ago in February 2011, getting to Egypt wasn’t that easy. Back then, my London flight crew suddenly refused, in midair, to layover in Cairo. Instead, we touched …
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Obama Frames His Election-Year Vision in State of the Union Address
Washington - President Barack Obama used an election-year State of the Union address Tuesday night to frame the national debate not as a referendum on him but as a …
Hold Cheaters, Fraudsters and Exploiters Accountable to Get Our Economy Back
The spiral-to-the-bottom and inequality we are suffering is not an inevitable result of globalization, it is what happens when we don't hold cheaters and exploiters accountable and stop them. …
US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world should simply cripple Iran’s …