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Community Groups, Labor and ‘Occupy Chicago’ Protest Mortgage Bankers Association, Seven Thousand Strong
Protesters gather for the Occupy Chicago General Assembly. Click to view larger. (Photo: Mario Garcia-Baeza) When the Mortgage Bankers Association decided to hold their annual conference in …
Grotesque, Immoral and Profoundly Anti-Democratic: The Death Penalty Should Be Repealed
Murder without due process is the government act that fundamentally separates free societies from authoritarian regimes.
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Why No Demands? Occupy Wall Street Is a Rebellion, Not a Protest
Let’s get something straight: this movement has issued no demands. It is not a protest. It’s an occupation. Rebellions don’t have demands. As we wrote in the …
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Common Cents: Campaign Finance Reform Gets Congressional Boost
Yesterday on the Dylan Ratigan Show, Rep. Donna Edwards spoke at length about her recently introduced constitutional amendment that would restore to Congress and the states the authority to …
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The Rise of the Reverse Houdinis
Washington - So let’s see: The solution to large-scale abuses of the financial system, a breakdown of the private sector, extreme economic inequality and the failure of companies and …
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Wall Street (Unlike)
Tyrants are ruthless. They throw people in jail, execute them without trial, suppress the press. They can rule for decades. They can attempt to set up dynasties. But in …
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Bathtubs for Beginners
In economics life there’s a basic conceptual distinction between a flow and a stock. A flow is a something that occurs over some period of time, like water pouring …
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Why Do These Koch Industries Neighbors Have Cancer?
Our ongoing Koch Brothers Exposed video investigation has discovered something so tragic it will haunt Charles and David Koch for years to come. Is a Koch Industries …
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Financial Giants Put New York City Cops on Their Payroll
Videos are springing up across the internet showing uniformed members of the New York Police Department in white shirts (as opposed to the typical NYPD blue uniforms) pepper spraying …
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Senate Falls Short of Votes to Take Up Obama’s Big Jobs Bill
Washington - The Democrat-led Senate effectively killed President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan Tuesday as the White House and Democratic lawmakers talked of breaking the president’s plan into …