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Occupy Wall Street Speaks for America: A “Centrist” Hit Job’s Polling Data Helps Prove It
Thanks to a hit piece by one of those Beltway pseudo-"bipartisans" we can now state conclusively what many of us have long suspected: Occupy Wall Street speaks for the …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: International Monetary Fund Calls on Governments Around the World to Ditch Their Austerity Agendas, and More (2)
In today's On the News segment: Occupy Wall Street movement begins its second month, third quarter profit numbers show Wall Street is making a killing while Main Street is …
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The FBI Goes Rogue on Iran
Part I – Going Rogue Again Back on 1 September 2011 I posted a piece (see essay six below) titled America’s FBI Goes Rogue. The …
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Occupy Wall Street Protests March on Midtown, and the World
New York - Activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City flooded Times Square on Saturday as part of a global day of action, with protesters …
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A Closer Look at Alabama’s Disastrous Immigration Law
The fact that Alabama has HB 56, the nation’s harshest anti-immigrant law on the books, has become a point of pride of some Alabama Republicans. The bill’s sponsor, state …
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Countless Grievances, One Thread: We’re Angry
Phoenix - Pen Alandt’s guitar, which he covered with bumper stickers and waved in the air at the Occupy Phoenix protest on Monday, is a symbol of the movement …
Walking Like an Egyptian: Food, Farming and Foreign Policy
Egyptian civilians celebrate the marking of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation one week earlier, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, February 18, 2011. One week after Mubarak stepped down, thousands of Egyptians …
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The Meagerness of the Republican Debates, the Smallness of the President’s Solutions and the Need for a Progressive Alternative
Republicans are debating again tomorrow night. And once again, Americans will hear the standard regressive litany: government is bad, Medicare and Medicaid should be cut, “Obamacare” is killing the …
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Side With the 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street is the populist movement that the Tea Parties claimed to be. And in its third week of confronting the nation’s financial overlords, Occupy Wall Street and …
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Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year — with …