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The Austerity Death Trap
Ron Paul’s newly-unveiled economic plan – promising to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget in year one (presumably that means 2013) – is only slightly more ambitious than …
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If the Greeks Can Shut Their Country Down, Why Can’t We?
In an effort to stop Greece’s parliament from voting for further austerity measures today and tomorrow, the Greek people have effectively shut the entire country down, as part of …
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Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail? TARPing War
Soldiers with the U.S. Army 2nd Platoon, Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment fire 105mm rounds of artillery toward a Taliban or Haqqani network rocket position beside …
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Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan Would Give Hudreds of Thousands Back to Millionaires
Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would give every American making more than $1 million an average tax cut of $455,000, according to a new independent analysis. All …
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Citigroup Settles for $285 Million; No Wall Street Executive Jailed Yet
Washington - Global banking giant Citigroup has agreed to pay $285 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a complex financial instrument tied to the now-crippled housing …
New “Unity Unions” Self-Organize to Confront Workplace Abuses
(Image: JR / Truthout) The last five years have been grim and isolating ones for immigrants and working people, right? Overall, this may be the case, but …
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Which Bank Is the Worst for America? Five Behemoths That Hold Our Political System Hostage
The economic crash led to the loss of 9 million jobs and the biggest drop in American home-ownership since the Great Depression. Long-term unemployment, poverty and hunger have increased …
US Combat Troops Descend on Africa
Ugandan soldiers on patrol in the Congo, looking for tracks of the Lord’s Resistance Army in late March 2010. (Photo: Jeffrey Gettleman / The New York Times). …
Wall Street Firms Spy on Protestors in Tax-Funded Center
Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of …
New Hampshire Polls Show Both Side of the Aisle Agree on Something
Today the business leaders of the Committee for Economic Development and the bipartisan Americans for Campaign Reform released a new poll showing that almost 2/3 of likely Republican Primary …