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VA Scandal: Is Obama’s Whistleblower Button Reset?
After the VA scandal of manipulating appointments for health care access to our veterans is “resolved,” will the first causality be the VA whistleblowers who have gone public?
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That Surveillance Reform Bill Was Gutted, Passed and Sent to the Senate
Want real surveillance reform? Well, we almost had it. The USA Freedom Act started off with a roar before being slightly weakened (compromised is the word being used) by …
Our Words Are Our Weapons: The Feminist Battle of the Story in the Wake of the Isla Vista Massacre
The struggle has been and will be long and harsh and sometimes ugly, and the backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning.
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Our Militarized Police Tossed a Stun Grenade at a Baby
Right now, a 1-year-old toddler with severe burns is clinging to life in a Georgia hospital, after a SWAT team barged into the house where he and his family …
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Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal“
Policy must assure the security of state authority and concentrations of domestic power, defending them from a frightening enemy: the domestic population, which can become a great danger if …
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We All Must Become Zapatistas
The transformation by the EZLN is one that is crucial to remember as we search for mechanisms to sever ourselves from the corporate state and build self-governing communities.
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
Astroturf America
Radical cartoonist Sarah Rosenblatt illustrates astroturfing, or fake grassroots organizing, to demonstrate how corporations and politicians undermine social democracy.
Confronting Financialization on Steroids
Costas Lapavitsas says we must deeply reverse financialization and take on private ownership of banking and other critical sectors.
“How Immigration Became Illegal”: Aviva Chomsky on US Exploitation of Migrant Workers
We are joined by Aviva Chomsky, whose new book, “Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal” details how systemic prejudice against Mexicans and many other migrant workers has been woven into …