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Peter King: Reactionary, Rash and Wrong

Rep. Peter T. King (R-New York), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 29, 2010. (Photo: Drew Angerer…
by
Matthew Harwood,
Truthout
March 7, 2011
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News Analysis

How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity Into Prosperity: Own a Bank

Protesters dance and celebrate being allowed to stay another night in the rotunda at the State Capitol building, in Madison, Wisconsin, on February 27, 2011. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno…
by
Ellen Brown,
YES! Magazine
March 7, 2011
Truthout
News Analysis

Public Pensions 101 (2)

With the recent spate of attacks on climate science and evolution, it should not be a surprise that traditional defined-benefit pensions in the public sector are now also…
by
Dean Baker,
Truthout
March 7, 2011
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News Analysis

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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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