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Putin’s Latest Target: Free Speech on the Internet
Writing a blog like this in Russia could get a person arrested if they hadn't first registered with the government.
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Keith Ellison Warns Democrats: Focus on People, Not Fundraising
“Trying to go dollar for dollar with these Republicans is a losing strategy,” Ellison argued.
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An American Road to Nowhere
Paul Krugman: Asking how we will pay for infrastructure may seem prudent, but it is in fact deeply foolish.
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Derailing the High-Speed Trading Bullet Train Before It Crashes Our Economy
Four years after they caused the “Flash Crash,” high-frequency trading speed demons still rule our financial markets.
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Mothers Behind Bars
Mother's Day needs to become a call to arms against the continued oppression and trauma of incarceration experienced by both mothers and children.
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Can Frances Fox Piven’s Theory of Disruptive Power Create the Next Occupy?
In recent years, Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring have created renewed interest in such moments of unusual activity. The uprisings have spawned discussion about how activists might …
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How God May Replace the US Constitution in Just Three Easy Steps
Not everyone likes the separation between church and state, and we are seeing those people fight for the right to convert the country to a Biblical theocracy.
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Mother
Andrew Lam discusses dealing with a parent with dementia.
Corporate Contractors Dance For New Energy Project
Contractors, lobbyists and officials attending the Homeland Security Congress in Washington DC yesterday did a “traditional” Native American circle dance to celebrate a fictitious new US government plan, the …
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It’s Time to Take Back the Organic Community
Citizens and farmers created organics as an alternative to industrial-scale agriculture and food production.