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Does America’s Fortune Ride on Two Numbers? – 9/11 and 99:1
San Francisco— Numerologists and The History Channel, known for its occult versions of world events, will have their heyday with two digits that, when arranged in certain sequence, foretold …
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Female Wal-Mart Employees File New Bias Case
(Photo: Spencer Tirey / The New York Times) Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out their national class action lawsuit, lawyers representing women who claimed that …
Papandreou Co-Opted “Revolution” – Now, the Greek People Must Reclaim It
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. (Photo: Prime Minister of Greece / Flickr) Little did the Greek people know when “socialist” prime minister George Papandreou, back in June …
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How the 99 Percent Really Lost Out – in Far Greater Ways Than the Occupy Protesters Imagine
Joanne Kathleen Farrell, a protester from Occupy Albany, waved an American flag on Washington Avenue, which borders Academy Park near the state Capitol, in Albany, New York, October 26, …
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Elders a (Labor) Force for Social Change
We’re a nation that will soon have more older people than young ones, and much of the popular media portrays this as a disaster story that goes something like …
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Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street?
(Photo: Timothy Krause / Flickr) “Where my feminists at?” read a sign propped against a bench at the entrance to Zuccotti Park on Thursday night as a …
How Elizabeth Warren Used Adam Smith Against the Right
Since Elizabeth Warren declared her intentions to challenge Scott Brown on his Senatorial re-election bid, she has become increasingly vocal - not an uncommon strategy for a blossoming politician. …
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Then They Fight You
Occupy Oakland protesters after their camp was destroyed by Oakland police along with ten neighboring police departments. Several hundred protesters regrouped at the intersection of 14th and Broadway …
A Dose of Reality for MTV, or the 1 Percent Monetizes Protest Against the 1 Percent
This is the true story of seven strangers volunteering to sleep on the ground and have their lives taped. Find out what happens when people stop being revolutionary and …
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North Carolina Considers Constitutionally Banning Same-Sex Marriage
Gay marriage is already illegal in North Carolina, but last month, the state's Republican-controlled legislature put a proposal to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage on a …