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The Wars of the One Percent
America’s wars are remote. They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and …
At Durban Talks, Government Officials Fiddle as Planet Burns
Demonstrators gather near the International Conference Center, where the Durban Climate Change conference is held on December 2, 2011. (Photo: Ainhoa Goma / Oxfam) The image of …
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What Government Aid?
Earlier this year I wrote about a paper by Suzanne Mettler that included a survey showing that a large proportion of beneficiaries of government programs insist that they have …
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Corporate Tax Dodging Has Cost States More Than $42 Billion in Revenue Over the Last Three Years
ThinkProgress has documented the repeated tax dodging of large corporations, some of which, like GE, have gone entire years without paying taxes despite hauling in massive profits. Now, that …
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The Future of the Occupy Movement
The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public discourse, faces a critical juncture. As many of the …
Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons: An interview With Victoria Law
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Israel May Ban Women Singing in Public
Men in the Israeli army are forced to endure an incredible pain. They actually have to hear women singing in public. Are you shocked, shocked? Ultra-orthodox rabbis in Israel …
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Unemployed Confront Congress at Take Back the Capitol
Today thousands of unemployed people and others came to D.C. to tell Congress and “K Street” that they need jobs not cuts; that we should tax the rich, and …
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Obama Appeals for a New Commitment to a Fair America
Osawatomie, Kansas - President Barack Obama cast the national debate and developing 2012 presidential campaign Tuesday as a battle between two visions of the economy, government and society. …
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Blagojevich Sentenced to Fourteen Years in Prison
Chicago - Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, was sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for 18 felony corruption convictions, including trying to sell …