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Countless Grievances, One Thread: We’re Angry
Phoenix - Pen Alandt’s guitar, which he covered with bumper stickers and waved in the air at the Occupy Phoenix protest on Monday, is a symbol of the movement …
Walking Like an Egyptian: Food, Farming and Foreign Policy
Egyptian civilians celebrate the marking of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation one week earlier, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, February 18, 2011. One week after Mubarak stepped down, thousands of Egyptians …
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The Meagerness of the Republican Debates, the Smallness of the President’s Solutions and the Need for a Progressive Alternative
Republicans are debating again tomorrow night. And once again, Americans will hear the standard regressive litany: government is bad, Medicare and Medicaid should be cut, “Obamacare” is killing the …
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Side With the 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street is the populist movement that the Tea Parties claimed to be. And in its third week of confronting the nation’s financial overlords, Occupy Wall Street and …
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Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year — with …
Secret Surveillance: Truthout and the ACLU on What the Government Knows, or Wants to Know, About You
Since September 11th, 2001, the United States government has been monitoring its citizens' phone calls, license plates, internet search histories, purchases, and movements in unprecedented and, in some cases, …
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Over 1,000 Americans Have Been Arrested Protesting Wall Street, While Bankers Have Dodged Major Prosecutions
One of the major complaints made against the financial sector by demonstrators who began their occupation of Wall Street one month ago today is that there have been few …
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Global Day of Rage: Hundreds of Thousands March Against Inequity, Big Banks, as Occupy Movement Grows
From Buenos Aires to Toronto, Kuala Lumpur to London, hundreds of thousands of people rallied on Saturday in a global day of action against corporate greed and budget cutbacks, …
US Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally for Strikes Against Iran
Washington - Key neo-conservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are calling for military strikes against Iran in retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire …
Wait, It Gets Worse: Wall St. Responsible for Sky-Rocketing Oil and Gas Prices, Too.
While the issues that resonate the loudest through the various #OccupyWallStreet protests surround bank bailouts, dirty housing foreclosure tactics and crony relationships with politicians, a new report from the …