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An Easy Toll Tax
While the weight of taxation continues to shift to the backs of the working and middle classes and onto the books of small businesses, Congress dithers about reforming the …
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DEA Using NSA Surveillance to Crack Down on Drug Crimes?
A new report reveals that a secretive DEA unit funnels surveillance info from gov't agencies to law enforcement — and tells them to hide it.
ALEC Turns 40, But Who’s Behind It?
Brendan Fisher: After forty years, corporate-funded ALEC remains an organization filled with secrecy.
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Are You Prepared to Shoot the Hostage?
With Republicans attempting to block Obamacare at every turn, the American people are the real victims.
Eric Holder: DoJ Will Challenge Voter Suppression Laws Using “Every Tool” at Its Disposal
The Department of Justice will not remain on the sidelines as the GOP seeks to illegally game the electoral system.
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Southern Leaders Opt to Exclude 2.7 Million From Health Care
In the Deep South and Florida, Republican governors and state legislatures have turned down the funding to expand Medicaid coverage.
Has the British Government Understood Radicalization?
The seventh of July 2013 was the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attack in London.
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Tunisian Protesters Occupy the Streets as Parliament on Verge of Collapse
Thirty-three months later, thousands of protesters, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, now seek the ouster of Tunisia's elected Islamist Ennahdha government, which has failed to produce a …
Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
Only a tiny proportion of research in biology gets done outside of straightjackets imposed by funding agencies.
Creating the New World
A simplified explanation of the strategy to transform our society from a greedy plutocracy to a cooperative democracy, from our destructive path to a sustainable future, is that there …