The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Swiss Voters Defeat Bill Seeking to Cap Executive Pay
Though voters rejected a proposal Sunday to limit top executives' salaries, anger over pay has tapped a nerve in Switzerland, where people are increasingly unhappy with rising wealth inequality.
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Paris Isn’t Burning — Not Yet
Today, France isn’t occupied — unless you count multinational corporations as occupiers. Instead, it's the racists, the Anti-Semites and the members of the National Front who are fanning the flames of popular discontent.
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Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Meet Protests in Salt Lake City
Outside the Grand America Hotel, the rains fell, the speakers rose, the marchers chanted. Inside, top trade negotiators from the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations discussed imports and exports, profits and products, prices and patents.
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Donald Sutherland: "I Want Hunger Games to Stir Up a Revolution"
The Hunger Games is a coded commentary on inequality, power and hope, and he wants it to stir revolt: a youth-led uprising against injustice to overturn the U.S. as we know it.
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World of Resistance (WOR) Report, Part 1: The Global Awakening
Institutional and imperial power structures have never been more globalized or concentrated in human history; yet, simultaneously, never have they been under more threat from an awakened humanity. Zbigniew Brzezinski says there's no going back.
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New Jersey Town To Rescue Foreclosed Homeowners Through Eminent Domain
On Saturday, Irvington Mayor Wayne Smith announced the township’s plan to “take” and revalue foreclosed homes at market rates for public benefit using the legal doctrine of “eminent domain” -- making it the second U.S. city to exercise the measure.
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Royal Troubles: Amid Austerity and Inequality, Ire Is Growing Over Britain's 1% Monarchy
Inheritances of vast wealth and power position the British royals and aristocrats within the global 1%. So why do protests for democracy and equality rarely draw attention to them, focusing anger instead merely on bankers, politicians and corporate fat cats?
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Massive Leak and Bi-Partisan House Opposition Strike Double Blow to Trans-Pacific Partnership
Broad bi-partisan opposition announced this week shows that winning Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority for the corporate coup known as the TPP has little support in Congress. In fact, the letters may be the death knell for such legislation.
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Arctic 30 Protester: "My Little Girl Will Have Forgotten Who I Am In Seven Years"
A defiant letter and a series of poignant drawings from Britain's Phil Ball, a 42-year-old cameraman from Oxford now sitting in a jail cell in Murmansk, highlight the plight of the Arctic 30 in their eighth week of imprisonment in Russia.
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BREAKING: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Text Exposed
The Intellectual Property Rights Chapter published Wednesday by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents.
