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Noam Chomsky: From Hiroshima to Fukushima, Vietnam to Fallujah, State Power Ignores Its Massive Harm
Chomsky met with Fukushima survivors, including families who evacuated the area after the meltdown.
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Conservatives Offer Americans Empty Stomachs and Empty Rhetoric
Paul Ryan says that “the left” is offering Americans “a full stomach and an empty soul.” The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs …
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Matt Stoller: Big Oil Hooked Americans on Credit Cards
The credit card industry gets short shrift when it comes to history.
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Chris Hedges | Welcome to Satan’s Ball
Our elites have established the most efficient system of mass surveillance in history. They have abolished most of our civil liberties.
Roundtable: As Crimea Threatens Secession, Does East-West Split Hasten Ukraine’s Political Divide?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is rebuffing warnings from the US and European Union as the crisis in Ukraine threatens one of the worst east-west standoffs since the Cold War.
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Major League Soccer to Start Season With Scab Refs
The MLS refs lockout is devastating for MLS and terrible for all working people, whether you consider yourself a soccer fan or not.
Disturbing Democracy
Admittedly this is happening in states both new to democratic politics and deeply divided along ideological lines.
All of the Arguments Against Raising the Minimum Wage Have Fallen Apart
If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since its inception in 1968, it would now stand at $10.74 per hour.
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In the Midst of an Investigation, Wisconsin GOP Fast-Tracks “Dark Money” Bill
A proposed bill that would keep the public in the dark about the sources of money in Wisconsin elections could also make it easier for dark money groups to …
Senate Race-Baiting? Dems Join GOP to Block Obama DOJ Pick Tied to Legal Defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal
In a stunning vote, a group of US Senate Democrats has broken ranks to join Republicans in rejecting President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, …