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Madison a Foretaste of Things to Come: the Next Big Occupation Could be Boomers Taking Over the Capitol Building

Union supporters demonstrate outside the State Capitol as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker prepares to speak about the state budget at a joint session of the Legislature in Madison,…
by
Dave Lindorff,
This Can't Be Happening
March 6, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

Meet the New Start, Same as the Old Finish (2)

Last May, the Obama administration promised $80 billion to the nuclear weapons establishment for “modernizing” the arsenal. Three large H-bomb laboratories will share about $10 billion annually to…
by
John LaForge,
Truthout
March 6, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

Public Teachers: America’s New “Welfare Queens” (2)

Protesters in Tallahassee, Florida on February 26, 2011. (Photo: A Florida Studio) In 1976, on a failed campaign to the White House, Ronald Reagan coined one…
by
Adam Bessie,
Truthout
March 6, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

Women on the Frontlines in Bahrain

The Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain erupted on February 14 when protesters gathered at the “roundabout,” or Pearl Square, in the capital city of Manama. A country…
by
Shahnaz TaplinChinoy,
Ms. Magazine
March 6, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

The Real News on Jobs

Roman Landa, a former mortgage broker, in Glenview, Ill., May 25, 2010. Landa suspended his job search in frustration early this winter after applying for nearly 700 positions…
by
Robert Reich,
Robert Reich's Blog
March 5, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

If It Sounds Too Good … What You Need to Know, but Don’t, About Privatizing Infrastructure (2)

Remember the old joke about some sharpie who takes innocents by “selling” them the Brooklyn Bridge? By the time the poor guy finds out he was taken, the…
by
Ellen Dannin,
Truthout
March 5, 2011
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News Analysis

Philadelphia: The Next Big Target for the Right-Wing Assault on Public Employees and Unions

Charlene Scott cheered and chanted with the hundreds thronging Philadelphia’s Love Park during Saturday's protest against conservative Republican onslaughts seeking to slaughter what remains of the living-standard comforts…
by
Linn Washington Jr,
This Can't Be Happening
March 5, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

Are House GOP Freshmen Seriously Interested in Cutting the Defense Budget?

There is no shortage of headlines with a variation on a theme such as: “Tea Party Declares War on Military Spending,” “Tea Partiers Say Defense In Mix For…
by
Nick Schwellenbach,
Project on Government Oversight
March 5, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

Unemployment Edges Lower as Job Growth Returns

The number of workers unemployed less than 5 weeks is fewer than at any point in the 90s. The unemployment rate edged down to 8.9 percent…
by
Dean Baker,
The Center for Economic and Policy Research
March 4, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

Julian Assange: At the Forefront of Twenty-First Century Journalism (2)

If there were ever a doubt about whether the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is a journalist, recent events erase all those doubts and put him…
by
Kevin Zeese,
Truthout
March 4, 2011
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