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News in Brief: Warren Prodded to Run for US Senate Seat in Massachusetts, and More
Warren Prodded to Run for US Senate Seat in Massachusetts Even as activists and advocates are pushing for a recess appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the …
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The Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens Has Been Drugged
Movements for justice have historically been driven by a small percentage of any population. One percent of Americans nonviolently occupying Washington DC, could make Cairo and Madison and Madrid …
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Obama’s Sister: What Our Mother Taught Us
In 1984, YES! Publisher Fran Korten worked alongside Barack Obama's mother, Ann Soetoro, at the Ford Foundation's office in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ann's daughter, Maya, who was 14 at the …
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Pricing Carbon to Reduce Emissions, Create Dividends
Cap and trade is dead — long live the Green Dividend. That was the consensus of a conference on pricing carbon held late last year at Wesleyan …
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A Medicare Moment for GOP
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Washington - Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the architect of his party's radical …
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NATO Bombs Tripoli in Heaviest Strikes Yet
Rebel fighters walk toward the front line on Tripoli Street past trees that have had their branches blown off during heaving fighting in Misrata, Libya, May 4, 2011. (Photo: …
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Why Elizabeth Warren Scares Republicans
"There is only one person who should lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and that is the brilliant advocate who championed it, the remarkable administrator who has helped get …
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Trapped by the Euro, Yet Dependent on It
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Kudos to Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, for saying the …
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Death Toll From Joplin Tornado Reaches at Least 116
Joplin, Missourri - The death toll from Sunday's tornado is now 116, city officials said Monday afternoon, with an estimated 400 injured. But there was some good …
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The Indignation in Spain Rises Gently From the Plains
For the past week, in anticipation of local elections this weekend (May 21-22), Spanish students and young people defied legal injunctions and held protests in the country’s major cities. …