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War Budget Cuts Are Possible if We Counter Contractors’ Multimillion-Dollar Campaign Spending
The deal worked out to allow a rise in the debt ceiling gives us our first real chance in more than a decade to make significant cuts to our …
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Eight Union Victories Progressives Should Be Watching – and Learning From
We always hear that unions are in trouble. But that's not the whole story. While nearly one of every three American workers were union members in 1945, …
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England’s Ashes – Our Future?
Hopefully the worst of the violence is over in Great Britain. London's fires are cooling into ashes, and with any luck they won't be rekindled. But even though …
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Next Stop: Train Wreck
Sen. Jon Kyl, (R-Arizona), left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) walk to the Senate floor to vote on a plan to increase the debt ceiling, on Capitol …
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Economic Crisis or Nonviolent Opportunity? Gandhi’s Answer to Financial Collapse
(Photo: Pranav Yaddanapudi / Flickr) On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average fell 634.76 points; the sixth-worst point decline for the Dow in the last 112 years …
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Verizon’s Workers Strike Back at Corporate Greed – You Can Join Them!
The reason you see so many cellphone stores and ads everywhere is because wireless is a very lucrative business. Wireless companies are pulling in billions and their executives are …
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Could the Pentagon Be Responsible for Your Death?
Put what follows in the category of paragraphs no one noticed that should have made the nation’s hair stand on end. This particular paragraph should also have sent …
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United States vs. Europe: Who Is Worse Off?
(Source: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) In recent online commentary for The New York Times, Simon Johnson, the former chief economist for the International …
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United Snakes of America: Obama, the Republicans and the Media
House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama meet with Congressional leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House to discuss the debt limit and deficit reduction, July …
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Panic on the Streets of London
I'm huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn. The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and running street battles in Hackney, of …