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What Rand Paul and Ted Cruz Exposed About the Drone Strikes
Americans are learning the truth about the executive's elastic definition of
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Lords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else
Richard Eskow: We're demanding sacrifice from the middle class - pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn't too big to fail.
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Automatic Spending Cuts Set to Start After Congress Fails to Act
Obama is expected to sign a directive ordering to start putting spending cuts into effect.
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It’s 1948 Again – Wake Up!
A new poll found that when the voters didn't know which plan was whose, the policies that most voters preferred were those offered up by the Progressives Caucus in …
Congress: End Endless War and Stop Becoming “the Evil That We Deplore”
Revoking the power to combine lovely rhetoric with pernicious militarism will be even more difficult.
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How Congress Could Fix Its Budget Woes, Revisited: The Financial Transactions Tax Alternative
The tax could raise $1 trillion in new revenue per year.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: In First Congressional Race Since Newtown, NRA Support Backfired on a Candidate, and More
In today's On the News segment: Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will put out a new deficit-reduction plan; Illinois State Senator Toi Hutchinson dropped her bid for a congressional …
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The Wrecking Crew Is Winning
The Republican Congress is holding the economy hostage.
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Carnival Cruise
Could the Senate Intelligence Committee Do Oversight of CIA Drone Strikes?
Senate Intelligence Committee draws ire for a lack of awareness about the CIA's drone strikes.