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ALEC – America’s Secret Political Power
A participant in a protest against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) holds a sign in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 29, 2011. (Photo: Mentatmark) Scottsdale, AZ - …
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As Big Bank Stocks Plunge, CEOs Continue to Reap Huge Salaries
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Company, talks with the media after testifying in front of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, on Capitol Hill in Washington on …
Year of Global Uprisings, From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: A Special Look Back at 2011 (2)
Today we look back at 2011, a year that saw the U.S. killing of Osama Bin Laden, the ouster of a dictator in Egypt and the death of one …
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The Roots of the Republican Party Crack-Up
With the Iowa caucuses just days away, the Republican crack-up threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any other time since the GOP's eclipse …
Keystone Jobs Versus Competitive-Dollar Jobs
The new great hope for job creation in Washington is the Keystone pipeline, a plan to create a pipeline that would transport oil from Alberta, Canada, as far as …
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How Will the Occupy Movement Evolve?
Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park in New York, October 8, 2011. (Photo: Michael Falco / The New York Times) Many supporters of the Occupy demonstrators …
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Rumsfeld-Era Propaganda Program Whitewashed by Pentagon
A controversial public relations program run by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's Pentagon was cleared of any wrong-doing by the agency's inspector general in a report published last …
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When a Child Is Abused by a War Veteran
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) I'm torn between the pleasure of having just read a brilliant and moving first-person stream-of-consciousness account of a true story of one …
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Shoveling America’s Wealth to the Top
As an old country saying puts it, “Money is like manure — it does no good unless you spread it around.” Yet America's corporate and political leaders …
Confronting Stereotypes of the Black Woman
Author and professor Melissa Harris-Perry. (Photo: Ove Overmyer) Since the days of slavery, the African-American woman has been subjected to stereotypes: the mammy, the angry black female …