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Families Join the Occupy Movement as the 99 Percent Takes On the Housing Crisis
A nine-year-old demonstrates with a picture of a home that Fannie Mae foreclosed on in Boston, October 10, 2011. (Photo: Lauren Metter, DIgBoston.com) Kelly Shaw and her …
License to Profit: Legalized Corruption in the US Congress
US Capitol Building. (Photo: Jason OX4) Are members of Congress corrupt? Perhaps we should define the term. There is the terrible, “legal” corruption of pay-for-play campaign contributions, …
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Cuomo Strikes Deal to Raise Taxes on the Wealthiest
Albany - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders on Tuesday announced that they had reached an agreement to raise taxes on New York State’s wealthiest residents as part …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Los Angeles City Council to Vote on Corporate Personhood Today, and More
In today's On the News segment: From 2009 to 2010, carbon emissions took the largest one-year jump since the Industrial Revolution started three centuries ago; European summit plans to …
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Mine Owner to Pay $200 Million in Death of 29 Men
In what officials say is the largest ever settlement in a government investigation of a mine disaster, Alpha Natural Resources agreed to pay $209 million in restitution and civil …
Unions and Immigrants Join Occupy Movements
Southern California janitors block the streets to protest the firing of immigrant workers. (Photo: David Bacon) Oakland, California - When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton …
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How Big Banks Finance Billions in Predatory Payday Lending
One of the more pernicious forms of predatory lending is payday lending, which involves firms giving usually low-income workers very short-term, high-interest loans in order to help them pay …
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Occupy Our Homes: From the Streets to Foreclosed Homes, OWS Finds a New Frontier
Today, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy movements around the country will “go out of the streets and into the homes” of the 99 percent to draw attention to the …
US, Mexico and Corporations Collude to Squelch Indigenous Movements
The Zapatistas have a motto: “everything for everyone, nothing for ourselves,” which seems to have been twisted by Mexican officials, as the government almost gleefully denies the indigenous group …
Marching Off the Cliff
Scarcely one-third of the U.S. population believes that there is a scientific consensus on the threat of global warming.