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Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan Would Give Hudreds of Thousands Back to Millionaires
Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would give every American making more than $1 million an average tax cut of $455,000, according to a new independent analysis. All …
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Citigroup Settles for $285 Million; No Wall Street Executive Jailed Yet
Washington - Global banking giant Citigroup has agreed to pay $285 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a complex financial instrument tied to the now-crippled housing …
New “Unity Unions” Self-Organize to Confront Workplace Abuses
(Image: JR / Truthout) The last five years have been grim and isolating ones for immigrants and working people, right? Overall, this may be the case, but …
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Which Bank Is the Worst for America? Five Behemoths That Hold Our Political System Hostage
The economic crash led to the loss of 9 million jobs and the biggest drop in American home-ownership since the Great Depression. Long-term unemployment, poverty and hunger have increased …
US Combat Troops Descend on Africa
Ugandan soldiers on patrol in the Congo, looking for tracks of the Lord’s Resistance Army in late March 2010. (Photo: Jeffrey Gettleman / The New York Times). …
Wall Street Firms Spy on Protestors in Tax-Funded Center
Wall Street’s audacity to corrupt knows no bounds and the cooptation of government by the 1 per cent knows no limits. How else to explain $150 million of …
New Hampshire Polls Show Both Side of the Aisle Agree on Something
Today the business leaders of the Committee for Economic Development and the bipartisan Americans for Campaign Reform released a new poll showing that almost 2/3 of likely Republican Primary …
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Clinton Issues Blunt Warning to Pakistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - Setting the stage for a high-level diplomatic showdown, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly warned Pakistan’s leaders on Thursday that they would face serious consequences …
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Lincoln’s Lessons for Obama
Washington - Can President Obama take advantage of the egalitarian sentiment let loose in the country by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations? Would doing so be consistent with the …
Laura Flanders’ Keynote Speech at Creative Time Summit: From Public Art to Occupy Wall Street
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