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Will Domestic Drone Privacy Bills Fall Short Because of ALEC, Defense Industry Influence?
The ACLU and other civil liberties groups say privacy recommendations to help standardize piecemeal legislation aimed at regulating domestic drone technology fall short.
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Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Up From Prior Month
The trade deficit figures for August were released this morning by the Census Bureau's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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How the Occupy Movement Began: The Full Account
Author Nathan Schneider traces the origins of Occupy Wall Street and identifies many of those who were instrumental in the genesis of the movement.
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Paul Krugman | The World According to the GOP
It's not just Fox News watchers who live in a bubble; sometimes, wealth and power can have the same effect.
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Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
In a return to Jim Crow vote suppression tactics, Judge Richard Posner's Voter ID law has kept 72,000 black voters from the polls.
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Spinning Failure Into Gold
Wall Street's greatest deception is the claim that they're brave risk takers who put their money into enterprises that create America's economic growth.
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Politicians’ Extortion Racket?
Some politicians are involved in a type of “legal extortion” to get their hands on cash, with terms like the “tollbooth” and “milker bills” describing some of these practices.
Economic Update: Worker Enterprises in Bolivia, New Party in Spain
Richard D. Wolff gives updates on big banks' misdeeds, inadequate health care, the social costs of low wages and Nobel prizes in economics.
The “Merchant of Death” Lobby
The U.S. gun industry doesnu2019t want any restrictions on its profit-making role as a global u201cmerchant of death,u201d so its lobby has whipped half the Senate into line opposing …
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Thousands Rally to “Take Back Chicago”
At a massive rally to “Take Back Chicago,” thousands of Chicagoans backed an agenda for economic justice — and a challenge to the policies of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Members …