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7 Reasons Romney is a Terrible Choice for Veterans, Soldiers and Their Families
An empty suit of a man who couldn’t even fake giving a damn about our troops.
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Romney-Ryan would have us Fiddle while the World Burns
The choice in this election is between a slow, but gaining, political struggle towards better environmental policy or a return to Industrial Era abuses
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Occupy Inspires me to Vote, Voting Inspires me to Occupy
The choice has never been either popular democracy or institutional change–the choice has always been do both or get neither.
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No More!: We Need National Solidarity Against Police Brutality
Police brutality is a complex and long-standing plague on our national community., and it demands a large movement.
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Retroactively Retired Millionaire Robot Can’t Compute Being Called Out
Romney is having a hard time being called out on the very history he was campaigning on just a few months ago.
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From Paraguay to the U.S.: Learning from Gradual Corporate Coups
We as Americans should learn from the dramatic lessons of Paraguay just how powerful the unchecked hand of corporations can be.
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Republican Governors Declare Independence from Human Compassion
Unsatisfied with their callous performances as governors, some of the GOP’s cruelest politicians have ratcheted up their psychopath game to the level of endangering the lives of their taxpayers.
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Right Wing Values: Poisoning our Air to Fill Their Pockets
Right wing values are all about profit values –and nothing more. Whether poisoning our water, triggering a war or making us pay the receipt for their economic stupidity.
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Right Wing Values: Sponsor Tycoons While Slashing Jobs and Food Stamps
The quintessential tenet of the corporate right is, if it’s not maximum profit, it’s not worth it. Improving the country and creating jobs aren’t ‘worth it’ to the GOP.
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A Critical Mass to Challenge the Corporate Colonization of our Government
A mass majority convinced through years of struggle that a fairer, more humane, more sustainable world is possible is the best way to challenge the corporate colonization of our government.
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American Fatwa: Challenging the Drone Killing of Progressive Values
We should be really clear about the lines we’re crossing if we don’t challenge the undemocratic killing of what are effectively international gang leaders.
Now that America’s Awake the GOP Plans to Keep us from Voting
It’s an old right wing tactic that we should have long ago learned to recognize. When they can’t beat us in a democracy, they change the rules of that democracy.
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A Global May for a World Ripped off by Banksters
In what is being dubbed, hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters in more than 30 countries have retaken public space to demand a sustainable economy that serves people over profit.
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Uncomfortably Numb: Mitt Romney Has No Idea How You Feel
Were you to slam your head into a dead tree trunk for hours on end, that trunk would have a more dramatic reaction to your suffering than corporate prince and presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
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More than 100 Cities Celebrate Worker Power with May Day
Throughout America, over 100 cities celebrated the importance and power of working people in a May Day of rallies, teach-ins, walk-outs, marches and protests.
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The Pocket Lint Generation: Sold Out, Indebted and Forgotten
Crushed between a pricey education and a worthless job, we’ve left 19-39 year-olds financially stranded in America.
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Breitbart’s Sordid Legacy: Weiner Photos and a Crooked Supreme Court
While the privileged-paranoia duopoly over American politics is nothing new to us, we find that Breitbart’s twisted career haunts, warps and dysfunctions our democracy to this day in a very direct and troubling manner.
GOP Cuts to Food Stamps are Counter-Productive and Cruel
By attacking poverty programs in a time of economic hardship, Republicans have proven how little human suffering accounts in their political equations.
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The Desperate Need for Broad-Left Coalitions In the Era of the Corporateer
The two-fisted right-wing war on the working and middle-class has arrived and only wave after wave of Broad Left coalitions can truly stem the tide of fully corporatized America.
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The Second Right Wing Assassination of Trayvon Martin
The murder of Trayvon Martin was the accomplishment, not the mistake, of a racist and ultimately greed-based system, this includes its politics, economics and culture.
Your Local Post Office: From Public Service to Profit Piñata
For the past year we have seen an unremitting campaign by the corporate masters of the right wing to try to con the American people into privatizing the U.S. Postal Service.
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Counting Fuses with the Boomerang Ghosts of War
There’s a wave of psychologically troubled veterans headed back to America, and we need to prepare more thoroughly.
Right Wing Privilege and Paranoia Gang up on Equal Rights
Ready to demonize and belittle any socio-economically disenfranchised group available for the abuse, America’s right-wing is directly appealing to the paranoid at the behest of the privileged.
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Deadbeat War Hawks Want more Blood and Pillage in Iran
The American military industrial complex is gearing up our army to butcher through the Iranian people, and the bill will land in our laps.
Push Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box in 2012
If we want a fairer society, we have to fight for it both in the ballot box and all other public spaces, in real life or online. It’s all democracy.
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Pwning Intellectual Property? Hints of New Political Horizons
A funny thing happened on the way to the market. Evidence points to millions of computer users realized there are alternative markets for the particular information they seek.
