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US Uncut’s Anti-Austerity Protests Hit Bank of America
Protesters participate in a US Uncut action on Bank of America in Washington, DC. US Uncut is a new movement that has sprung from a UK-based anti-austerity group and …
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Disinformation About The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
In Washington, before lobbyists try hard to destroy something, they first spread a great deal of disinformation about it. Thus the “End Users’ Coalition” (a front for the derivatives …
No Other Way Out
I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. …
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No Other Way Out
I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. …
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Commodity Market Reform: Wall Street Versus the Regulators
In contrast to the rapidity with which governments moved to use taxpayer funds to rescue the “too big to fail banks” in 2008, the pace of financial and commodity …
Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers: Washington’s Ferocious Ax-Wielders Are Sparing Assorted Corporate Subsidies
Let's play a game called “Washington Budget Whackers Go Wacky”! Unfortunately, though, it's not a game. Ax-wielding Republicans and Democrats alike are madly whacking at our nation's public programs …
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Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers: Washington’s Ferocious Ax-Wielders Are Sparing Assorted Corporate Subsidies
Let's play a game called “Washington Budget Whackers Go Wacky”! Unfortunately, though, it's not a game. Ax-wielding Republicans and Democrats alike are madly whacking at our nation's …
Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy
Counterpublic spheres and modes of resistance that we once did not think young people could mount have erupted in a rush of emotional and political expressions.
Scapegoating Social Spending
Libyan Rebels Get US Nod, Fear Gaddafi Counterattack
Benghazi, Libya - The Obama administration appeared Sunday to welcome the formation of a national opposition government in Libya, as rebels feared dictator Moammar Gadhafi was preparing forces to …