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Status of the Resistance Movement: Growing, Deepening, Succeeding
Resistance continues to win real victories given the fertile environment created by a government that cannot respond to popular demands for a fair economy and participatory democracy.
The Misery Trick: Republican Bait-and-Switch on the Budget
Republicans are playing a trick on people with the negotiations over the budget and threats to shut down the government.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Asks Business Groups to Help Avoid Another Economic Crisis, and More
President Obama raised the pressure on Congressional Republicans, and asked business groups to help avoid another economic crisis.
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction From Derivatives
Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system.
Government Hands More Than $1 Trillion to Wealthy While Deficit Is $642 Billion
This is big money using money to influence the government to give them even more money.
Shocking New Research Reveals Obama’s Legacy Could Be an America of Aristocrats and Peons
Inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez reveal the biggest gap between rich and poor ever recorded by economists
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Not in the National Interest
Are we really going to do this? Are we going to wade into a struggle we don't really want to fight? Are we going to mire ourselves in a …
New Monetary Systems for a Sustainable Democracy and “The Great Turning“
Our money system is ill-equipped to help us solve the socio-economic and ecological challenges we face.
Collateral Damage: QE3 and the Shadow Banking System
Ellen Brown: The Federal Reserve Act might have to be modified, but what Congress has wrought can change.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.