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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 …

Why a Mortgage Cramdown Bill Is Still the Best Bet to Save the Economy
(Photo: Martin Börjesson / Flickr) Many Americans believe that the financial crisis stems from the Bush administration’s running up the federal debt and out-of-control spending by the American …

Studying Flags, Pins, Hope From 2008 Election
I Pledge Allegiance to the GOP Flag The flags of the United States of America and the Civil War-era Confederate Army have somewhat different symbolic associations. But recent …

Occupy Movement Underutilizes Potential to Challenge War Economy
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Herman Cain’s Tax Plan is Falling Out of Favor With Voters
Despite the roll-off-the-tongue nature of the title, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan seems to be falling out of favor with voters. The Washington Post reports that 56 …

Drug War Profiteers: Book Exposes How Wachovia Bank Laundered Millions for Mexican Cartels
As protests continue against Wall Street and the nation’s biggest banks, we speak to British journalist Ed Vulliamy, author of “Amexica: War Along the Borderline.” Vulliamy exposes how one …

Occupying the Jewish Question
The effort to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anti-Semitic movement came to a head last week, when The Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) released an ad, following, as …

New Inequality Data Likely to Boost “Occupy” Movement
Washington - A major study on income equality by a non-partisan government agency is likely to boost the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, whose standing with the general public appears …

Special Interests Woo Super Congress Members With Campaign Cash
The 12 members of the deficit-cutting Super Congress might be the most popular people in Washington. As they deliberate how to identify more than $1 trillion in spending cuts, …

Keeping It Clean: Maine’s Fight for Fair Elections
Eleven years ago, a waitress named Deb Simpson was elected to Maine’s state legislature—one of 116 candidates to run that year under the state’s newly implemented Clean Elections Act, …