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The Purpose of a Free Press
(Image: JR / Truthout) In researching this book, I ran across an astonishing piece of writing from our nation’s early years. It’s a fitting prologue for this …
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Will the US House Side With China on Currency?
If we want to bring jobs and wealth back to the United States for the 99% of us who have been under extreme pressure we're going to have to …
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“Globalization” Is Coming Home
It’s almost bedtime here in London, but Facebook is up and at it. Almost every post that appears in my news feed is about #occupywallstreet, and old and new …
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Justice Obstructed at Bagram as at Guantanamo: Ten Years Is Too Long!
Despite ten years of occupation and untold millions of dollars spent on rebuilding Afghanistan’s broken judicial and criminal justice system, the Afghan courts are “still too weak,” the Washington …
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Is Mitt Romney Ready for the World?
If current polls are correct, Mitt Romney seems likely to become the 2012 Republican presidential candidate and the next president of the United States. Therefore, we should carefully …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Police Violently Crackdown on Occupy Boston, and More
In today's On the News segment: Police crack down on Occupy Boston, Senate to vote on Obama's job plan, more than six million unemployed Americans could lose their benefits …
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A Delicate Moment for the Occupy Wall Street Movement
A group of children from Central Park East One and Two schools join demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, New York, October 10, 2011. (Photo: …
Grounds for Common Cause Between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party? An Interview With Timothy P. Carney
Wall Street protest on September 26, 2011, in New York's Financial District. (Photo: _PaulS_) Last week, I challenged libertarian populist writers for The Washington Examiner, who had …
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HB 56 Hurts Alabama’s Economy More Than It Helps
In all the debate surrounding Alabama's new immigration law, no one debates that it is the toughest in the nation. With Alabamian unemployment flirting with 10 percent and poverty …
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Occupy Austin: This Is Just the Beginning
Occupy Austin, Friday, Oct. 6, 2011. (Photo: Occupy Austin) Austin - Occupy Austin attracted the young, who found it new and wonderful, and the old, who found …