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Occupy Wall Street Talking Points: Who You Calling Slacker?
The media has settled on pushing the “slacker” image for OWS protesters. Excuse me? The truth is exactly the opposite: it is Wall Street and the wealthiest …
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Ai-jen Poo: Organizing Labor – With Love
Talk to Ai-jen Poo about her work and it won’t be long before you hear language you don’t often hear in the midst of intense social movement campaigning. For …
Washington Frets Over Pakistan Response to Soldiers’ Deaths
Washington - As the Pentagon scrambled Monday to satisfy Pakistani demands for a full accounting of Saturday's lethal air attack on two border posts, official Washington expressed hope that …
Senator Charles Schumer: Republicans Poised to Raise Taxes on Middle Class
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Republicans in Congress want to let the payroll tax holiday raising taxes on middle class Americans, while …
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Restore the Basic Bargain
For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers were …
Thom Hartmann Talks with Bill Moyers
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Neo-Nazis and “Defensive Democracy“
The weird revelations in Germany this month about a small group of neo-Nazi terrorists who killed at least nine foreigners and survived “underground” for 13 years by knocking over …
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Take Our Children, Please!
In 1729, when Ireland had fallen into a state of utter destitution at the hands of its British landlords, Jonathan Swift published a famous essay, “A Modest Proposal for …
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Conservative Message Machine in the Service of Big Oil
See if you can spot the common theme in the latest the conservative message machine pumped out today and in the last few days. Heritage Foundation: Obama …
If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the Terms of a New Economy
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although the increasingly unrestrained marketplace that Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis warn of makes it hard for many companies to emphasize community …