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Is Wisconsin Ground Zero for the “American Spring” or a Third Party?
Protesting provisions of Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard Hurd / Flickr) People watching the news over the past week might have …
America in Decline
Corporate power's ascendancy over politics and society both political parties far to the right of the population.
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Does Al Jazeera’s American Debut Give Hope for Media Diversity?
Al Jazeera English made its United States television debut this week, continuing the network's transformation in the eyes of the American public and government from dangerous machine to respectable …
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Millions of Federal Court Records are Being Destroyed to Save Money
The federal courts are destroying millions of judicial case records that have been stored in the Federal Records Centers of the National Archives for decades, all in an effort …
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Debt Ceiling Deal: Wrong Diagnosis Leads to Wrong Treatment for What Ails the Economy
The stock market's decline as the debt-ceiling deal was sealed says it all. Wall Street doesn't buy the reliance on magical thinking behind this deal – that it will …
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Bringing on the “Obama Recession” by Forgetting the Lessons of Keynes and FDR
“The economic experiments of President Roosevelt may prove, I think, to be of extraordinary importance in economic history, because for the first time — at least I cannot recall …
Employment Rate Hits New Low as Economy Creates 117,000 Jobs in July
The employment rate for blacks hit its 4th consecutive low for the downturn. The Labor Department reported that the economy created 117,000 jobs in July and revised …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congress’ Disapproval Rating at an All-Time High of 82 Percent, and More
TRANSCRIPT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPvDu3ws61k Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Senator Hutchison Only Republican Who Backed Democrats on FAA
In the impasse over funding the Federal Aviation Administration, which had idled more than 4,000 FAA employees and 70,000 construction workers for nearly two weeks, only one Republican sided …
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The US Doesn’t Have a Debt Problem. It Has a Crisis of Values
Default was the best option. The shameful and dangerous debt ceiling deal passed into law yesterday made that clear. It is rooted in the grand bargain that the political …