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(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: puntidivitaestilidivista, Pulpolux !!!) On August 14, 2011, Vance Gilbert, a middle-aged African-American musician, was sitting on a plane at Logan Airport reading …

(Photo: Christian Newton / Flickr) “Unrestrained financial exploitations have been one of the great causes of our present tragic condition.” -President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

(Photo: www.seniorliving.org) Warren Buffett recently enraged the right by chastising Congress for “coddling” millionaires and billionaires. In a widely quoted op-ed, he urged lawmakers to "raise rates …

As the “Audacity of Hope” leaches away from the reality-based community, Americans engaged in social movement activity are finally catching up with their brothers and sisters in other parts …

Watch the video on CSPAN. Rough transcript: okay. let's take questions from the audience. in the very back there's a question with his hand …

For more than two weeks, hundreds of demonstrators have encamped themselves on Wall Street in New York City, hoping to call attention to the financial sector’s greed and inequities …

An anti-government protester defaces a picture of Hosni Mubarak. (Photo: Antonello Mangano / Flickr) In an era where multinational corporations and linked international security networks exert increasing …

When the nation’s biggest banks were bailed out in 2008 via the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, the money came with a few (very loose) strings, including restrictions …

In today's On the News segment: the Occupy Wall Street movement is picking up some crucial support, Bernanke issues a warning to Congress, a top Al Qaeda leader was …