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“The Streets Still Matter“
Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution Edited by Josh MacPhee, Foreword by Rebecca Solnit The Feminist Press New York, 2010
Will Our Economy Ever Recover From the “Greatest Recovery”?
In a January 2009 ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos, then President-elect Barack Obama said fixing the economy required shared sacrifice: "Everybody's going to have to give. Everybody's going to …
Mr. President, We Want Your Children’s Education, Too
I agree that it was the economy that doomed the donkeys' midterm election results this past November, but something rang true for me in the descriptions of last week's …
2011: Jobs vs. the Deficit
The roadmaps showing the way out of our 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit almost always begin at the same starting points. During 2010, it became taken-for-granted that today's record-setting …
What’s Behind North Korea’s Offer for Unconditional Talks?
Tokyo - US envoy Stephen Bosworth struck an enigmatic note here Friday on the chances for more talks with North Korea after both South Korea and Japan flatly rebuffed …
David Sirota | The Money Paradox
If there's one thing you can still count on from today's increasingly erratic politics, it is pure unadulterated paradox. In a Washington circus that features as many morons as …
US Seeks Twitter Info on WikiLeaks’ Assange, Others
Washington — A U.S. magistrate in San Francisco has ordered Twitter to turn over to the Justice Department account whatever information it was about four of its users, including …
Attacking Public Employees: Will New York Lead?
As in other states, New York's new governor has focused attention on the state's budget woes: revenues insufficient to cover expenditures. His major response has been to blame public …
Obama Created More Jobs in One Year Than Bush Created in Eight
Yesterday morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate …
Obama Signs Law, Decries Its Limits on Transfer of Guantanamo Detainees
Washington — President Barack Obama on Friday reluctantly signed into law a military-funding bill that limits him from transferring terrorism detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S. or …