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Budget Shocker: Los Angeles Shows $119 Million Surplus
The reasons for Los Angeles' comparatively good financial condition include a legal groundwork laid years ago that required specific funding safeguards, recent give-backs from public sector unions and an …
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A Tale of Two Tragedies
Mike Ferner: A more developed sense of national empathy would better each of our lives.
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Authoritarianism Has Quietly Enveloped Every Part of American Life – We Must Fight Back
Privacy, not surveillance, is what must be justified now. We must make sure not to draw the wrong lessons from Boston.
Privatizing Europe
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism.
Palestinian Authority Budget 28 Percent for Security Forces – Funded by US
Shir Hever: US funds to the PA are earmarked for security forces that control militant opposition to Israel's occupation.
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How Fracking Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
The mining boom caused by the fracking industry's demand for silica sand has divided residents.
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We Should Not “Balance” Our Constitutional Rights With Security
As Ben Franklin so famously asserted, if we're going to go down the road of compromising our rights for security, we'll deserve - and almost certainly end up - …
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A House Divided: This Time, Between the People and the Corporations
Bryan Henry: Both conservatives and liberals need to rally around the American family to keep the corporate landlords at bay.
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On Filibuster, It’s Past Time to End “False Equivalence“
Andrew Cohen: The Senate's dubious vote on gun background checks last Wednesday is a study in at least three different layers of failure.
Dance on Thatcher’s Grave, but Remember, There Has Been a Coup in Britain
John Pilger: In the wake of Thatcher's departure, I remember her victims, like the ailing five-year-old girl who was denied public support because of her father's ties to a …