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Herman Cain Exits Race for President
Herman Cain will suspend his bid for the Republican nomination for president, he announced at his Atlanta campaign headquarters Saturday afternoon. Saying he is at peace with …
Fit to Be Killed: Manufacturing Synthetic Sanity on Death Row
(Photo: SearchNet Media / Flickr) The gun smoke had barely cleared - leaving six dead and 13 wounded, including Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who had a hole …
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Vermont’s Push to End Corporate Personhood
Over the last decade more than a hundred cities and towns across the country have passed ordinances putting citizens' rights ahead of corporate interests. They have banned businesses from …
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Fundraising Addiction and the Private-Money Corruption Machine
(Photo: espensorvik / Flickr) A lot of the cynical hopelessness in progressive media and cyberspace these days is about the private money corruption machine that dominates American …
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What Is Truth? In 400 Words
Note from the author: Philosophy Now magazine runs an occasional contest: Write an answer to a philosophical question in 400 words or fewer. The winning essays are printed in …
Thirteen Ways to Tax the Rich
(Photo: Justen Eason / Flickr) The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised the slogan of “We are the 99 percent” and coined the catchphrase that articulates the …
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Unemployed and Liberal Groups to Hold Protests in DC
Washington - Roughly 3,000 unemployed workers from around the country are expected in the nation's capitol next week for four days of protests with labor, religious and social justice …
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Round One Goes to the Islamists
Cairo - Islamists appear poised for a landslide victory in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, putting them on track to secure a majority in the country's first …
$7.7 Trillion to Wall Street – Anything to Keep the Banksters Happy!
The new One Bank of America Center in Charlotte, N.C., April 11, 2011. (Photo: Chris Keane / The New York Times) Do you know who Elizabeth Duke …
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Jobless In Wonderland
Finding a job is hard enough for the many millions of unemployed American workers. But, believe it or not, the fact that they are jobless keeps many employers from …