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A Campaign Finance Ruling Turned to Labor’s Advantage
Washington — Labor unions are seizing on last year’s landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics, developing ambitious plans to influence nonunion households …
Chris Hedges at Occupy Wall Street
Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street?
Wall Street, New York City. (Photo: Manu_H) The intensity with which the country's leading deficit hawks continue to ignore financial speculation taxes (FST) is getting ever more …
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Saudi Monarch Grants Women Right to Vote
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Sunday granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a …
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Tomatoes of Wrath
About 60 farmworkers line up to board a bus from Immokalee, Florida, on March 26, 2011, to begin a five-city tour from Boston to Tampa, stopping in each city …
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Poverty News
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Residents Alarmed by Proposal to Treat Fracking Waste in Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls, New York - With an end to New York's statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing in sight, residents of Niagara Falls were alarmed to learn that wastewater from …
Rethinking the TSA: No Longer Accepting Police Repression in Exchange for Safety
TSA conducting random spot checks at the gates in Fort Lauderdale. (Photo: steuben) Google "TSA stupidity" and you will find that almost one and a half million …
Rick Perry, Pay-for-Play Jailer
Governor Rick Perry of Texas at a book signing at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Given what we know about Gov. …
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Two Heads of One Political Monster
By now, probably everyone reading this is already sick of America's quadrennial political spectacle — the one in which politicians and media outlets ask us to believe that there …