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“Values” Voter Summit: Of Train Wrecks and Frankenstein’s Monsters
The Values Voter Summit, organized by the anti-gay and fundamentalist Christian extremist Family Research Council (FRC), may u201cPremier Conservative Event of 2012,u201d but more importantly, it is a chance …
Economic Update: “No Better Economic Policy?”
Updates on Spain's government vs radical unions' responses to crisis, who gains most from expanding money supply, temp and low-paid replace middle level jobs, US dominates global arms sales. …
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Let’s Outgrow the Infantile Disorders Evident in Occupy the DNC
With the one year anniversary of the #Occupy movement just around the corner, DC based activist Joel Northam gives a critique of the movement during both National Conventions.
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Apology for Akin: Why He Is Only Saying What Republicans Are Thinking
When it comes to the GOP and the controversy surrounding
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The Worst Teacher in Chicago
It's Back to School Time! Time for the editorialists and the Tea Party and Barack Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan to rip into the people who dare teach in …
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Chris Hedges vs. CrimethInc. on Violence: Will We Get the Debate We Deserve?
Squaring off to determine what role - if any - violence is to have in movements like Occupy, the opponents will march into one of the left's most treacherous …
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We Won the War on Poverty, Then Lost the Peace
We have the money to end poverty in America. We only lack the will.
Iran, the Left and the Non-Aligned Movement: A Guide for the Perplexed
The bafflement about Iran so widespread on the Left has a long history.
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Anti-Drug War Caravan Comes to the Midwest, Heads East
Washington spends billions to incarcerate people for drug crimes, has criminalized Latinos and African-Americans, but the US is still the biggest drug market in the world, and violence is …
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Strike Is the Best Lesson Chicago Teachers Union Could Have Planned
Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.