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What is the Real Agenda of the Budget-Cutters?
What is the real agenda of the budget-cutters? Are they really trying to bring the country back from the edge of financial ruin? Or did they bring about the …
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Main Street Movement Erupts as Thousands Across Country Protest War on the Middle Class
Last week, 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats inspired the nation when they decided to flee the state rather than allow quorum for a vote on a bill that would have …
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Corporations to Government: Give Us More, Tax Us Less
Nothing better shows corporate control over the government than Washington’s basic response to the current economic crisis. First we had “the rescue” and then “the recovery.” Trillions in public …
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In Haiti, “We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting“
At the Toussaint Louverture Airport in Port-au-Prince, I spot Ronal’s taptap, pick-up-turned-public-bus, painted to resemble an Argentine flag - a salute to his favored team in last year’s World …
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USDA Approved Monsanto Alfalfa Despite Warnings of New Pathogen Discovered in Genetically Engineered Crops
Just two weeks before the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) fully deregulated Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa, a senior soil scientist alerted the department about a newly discovered, microscopic pathogen …
Faces of Wisconsin
Since Gov. Scott Walker introduced a bill that would effectively outlaw collective bargaining for public-sector workers, Madison, Wisconsin, has seen tens of thousands of people flock to the State …
Faces of Wisconsin
Since Gov. Scott Walker introduced a bill that would effectively outlaw collective bargaining for public-sector workers, Madison, Wisconsin, has seen tens of thousands of people flock to the State …
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News in Brief: Wisconsin Assembly Representatives Pass Anti-Union Budget in Surprise Vote, and More
Wisconsin Assembly Representatives Pass Anti-Union Budget in Surprise Vote
Obama in Wonderland
The unacknowledged speechwriter for Obama's State of the Union Address was Lewis Carroll.
Broun’s Vitriol Spawns Hate As Constituent Asks Congressman, “Who’s Going To Shoot President Obama?“
This past Tuesday Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) held a town hall meeting in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. During the question and answer session, one constituent asked a particularly outlandish question. …