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William Rivers Pitt | The Fundraising Message That Ate America
We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.
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The “Implacable” War Against Migrants
Looking at the ways migration has affected other countries, it is clear that US exceptionalism has no basis in fact. Why, then, is the debate over this country's immigration …
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House Stands Firm Against Obamacare, Senate Won’t Budge. Shutdown Looms.
Republicans rallied around a budget plan early Sunday to keep the government open but delay the new health care law for a year.
The Real Values War
The Republican controlled House of Representatives have voted on the Farm Bill; part of which includes a $39 billion cut in the food stamp program.
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Seven Things You Should Know About the Wackiest “Fiscal Crisis” Yet
Sometime in the next week, Congress will either get it together to pass a new budget resolution or the government will shut down.
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Climate Change Movement Shifts to Convey Urgency
Leaders in the climate justice movement say it is time to start leveraging activists' commitment against the greatest crisis humanity's ever faced.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Sen. Ted Cruz Takes Senate Floor to Launch a Phony Filibuster, and More
On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz took the floor of the Senate to launch an all-night phony filibuster, and more.
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American Bile
The partisan divide is sharper today than it has been in almost a century.
Sen. Diane Feinstein’s Husband Selling Post Offices to Cronies on the Cheap
Richard Blum, is feeding at the Postal Service privatization trough through an exclusive contract to handle sales for the Post Office's $85 billion of property.
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Stop the Kabuki: It’s About “the Great Betrayal“
MSNBC continues on with its campaign to cast the Tea Party Republicans in the role of principal villains in the imminent Government budget/government shutdown crisis and the likely coming …