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Three Things to Watch for in Wisconsin’s Historic Recall Race
As Wisconsin holds historic recall elections on June 5, the state can expect upward of 2.5 million voters to flock to polling places, possibly facing long lines, frenzied get-out-the-vote …
Yes, Virginia, We Can Do Something About the Drone Strikes
There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that there's nothing we can do politically to stop the US government from killing innocent civilians with drone strikes.
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Massey WV Coal Battle Take Two: Erie, Colorado Citizens Fight Fracking
Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal — the …
Citizens United Unleashed in Wisconsin Recall
Here is a brief look at the five biggest outside interest groups spending in Wisconsin's 2012 recall.
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Wisconsin Recall: Walker Rakes in Millions While Koch Brothers Pump Secret Cash
The June 5 Wisconsin recall vote is just days away, and Republican Gov. Scott Walker has raised more campaign cash than any candidate in Wisconsin history, with more than …
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Aggressive Subprime College Industry Lobby Group Ratchets Down – for Now
The for-profit college advocacy group Coalition for Educational Success (CES) has now dramatically reduced spending on lobbying.
Echoing the State: The New York Times on Honduras
Honduras has belatedly appeared on the radar of the U.S. media over the past couple of weeks. A joint U.S.-Honduras drug raid on Friday, May 11, reportedly killed civilians—including …
Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars
Decreasing in proportion to the rise in military spending are our civil liberties; our representative government; the balance of powers within the government; resistance to policies of warrantless spying, …
The Oligarchy’s Rule of Law: From Russia to Oklahoma
At the end of the 1990s, after the total collapse of the mass-privatization experiment in Boris Yeltinu2019s Russia, some of the more earnest free-market proselytizers tried making sense of …
“Dirty War” Tactic of Disappearances Reappears in Mexico
The War on Drugs is becoming another u201cDirty Waru201d in Mexico, with the tactic of enforced disappearances reappearing as a commonplace occurrence in the country.