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Presto! The DISCLOSE Act Disappears
The DISCLOSE Act is meant to reveal who's donating $10,000 or more to super PACs and trade groups.
Investigation Takes a Closer Look at GOP Donor to Adelson’s Billions
Steve Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica talks with Rachel Maddow about the reporting in a new ProPublica/FRONTLINE PBS collaboration looking into the questionable dealings behind the Macau-based casino fortune …
Report on the Greek Left
Leo Panitch: Recently returned from Greece, a report on Syriza, the left party that could win the next election
The Story of Change
Annie Leonard: Ever since I learned where our stuff really comes from u2013 and how this system is trashing people and the planet[i] u2013 Iu2019ve been trying to figure …
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Four Spending Myths That Could Wreck Our World: How Not to Solve an American Crisis
If lawmakers skipped the myth-making and began putting Americau2019s resources into a series of domestic investments that would spur the economy now, their acts would yield dividends for years …
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Economic Rapture Might Be Around the Corner
If the deficit disappears, our economic nightmare might finally come to an end.
After National Gathering, Is There Room for Insurrectionary Anarchism in Occupy?
The idea, according to organizers, was to bring Occupy participants together from around the country to share and focus visions for the movement.
Moyers Moment (2009): Michael Perino on the Pecora Commission
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimonu2019s hearings before Congress last month were strikingly similar u2014 in circumstances if hardly in results u2014 to the 1930s Senate Banking Committee hearings known …
Gar Alperovitz’s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for the “Next Great Revolution”
I urge that you sit back and say, am I up to that or am I just doing politics, or am I really up to that. Now the that …
Will the Obama Admininistration Prosecute the Big Banks for LIBOR Manipulation?
UN financial adviser and law professor Michael Greenberger says with Wall Street's embace of Romney, Obama has nothing to lose prosecuting the big banks for the Libor fraud.