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An Offer to the President
Mr. President, we heard what you said last week in Kansas – about the dangers to our economy and democracy of the increasing concentration of income and wealth at …
Whistleblowers: Software Monitoring Keystone XL Pipeline’s Safety Contains Deliberate Errors
Investigative Journalist Greg Palast. (Photo Courtesy of Greg Palast) Whistleblowers have told Britain's “Dispatches” that the safety software on major US pipelines contains deliberate errors - and …
Vets on Veterans Day – and the Other 364
Brendan Marrocco, a 23-year-old Iraq war veteran from Staten Island, New York, watches as his physical therapist, Luis Garcia, takes off his prothetic legs after practicing walking at Walter …
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Fragile and Unbalanced in 2012
New York - The outlook for the global economy in 2012 is clear, but it isn’t pretty: recession in Europe, anemic growth at best in the United States, and …
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Media Justice and the 99 Percent Movement
It all started with one message posted on a blog on July 13, 2011. The magazine Adbusters, a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine that combats corporate consumerism, issued a call: …
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Reform vs Revolution Within Occupy
Many Occupiers have expressed a valid concern over the Obama campaign attempting to hijack the Occupy movement. To avoid this pitfall some Occupiers advocate more radical methods, ideas and …
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Unemployment Slamming Public Employees
The latest job reports show that public employees, those favorite targets of Republicans and other government budget slashers, are being hit particularly hard by the country's severe unemployment …
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The Return of Debtor’s Prisons: Thousands of Americans Jailed for Not Paying Their Bills
Federal imprisonment for unpaid debt has been illegal in the U.S. since 1833. It’s a practice people associate more with the age of Dickens than modern-day America. But as …
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Why Does the Dallas Fed President Want to Destroy West Coast Port Unions?
The people that really run the world are not elected, but sit on the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve (FOMC). This is the crew of Fed …
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California Governor Calls Doubters of Climate Change “Political Lemmings“
San Francisco - California Gov. Jerry Brown railed Thursday against politicians who doubt climate change, calling them “political lemmings” and the chief obstacle in the fight against global warming. …