Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Green Presidential Candidate Arrested while Protesting Foreclosures
Jill Stein, the Green Party's 2012 presidential candidate, was charged with "defiant trespassing" for taking part in a bank sit-in to protest illegal foreclosures.
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Pussy Riot Is a Reminder That Revolution Always Begins in Culture
Vladimir Putin is right to be frightened by Pussy Riot. They are essentially a concept, and you can't stop a concept.
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Shell Game in the Arctic
How to bring the major oil companies ashore and halt the destruction of our oceans.
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, the people of Anaheim continued their stand against a trigger-happy police force, Occupy activists got raided by the FBI, the NYPD was finally called out for its Occupy-related human rights abuses, and 13 years after he aggressively lobbied Congress to repeal Glass-Steagall, former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill said, “Just kidding!”
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Top Ten Genetically Modified Foods
Here are the top ten genetically modified foods. Beware.
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An Open Letter to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Presidential Candidates and Occupy Wall Street
Dear ladies and gentlemen, Let's do a quick scan.
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Our Summer of Climate Truth
The world is baking and it's obvious why.
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Senate Cuts Taxes for the Rich While Raising Taxes on Working Families
The Senate GOP plan to preserve the Bush tax cuts on incomes above $250,000 already amounts to a budget-busting tax cut for the rich - in addition, it would eliminate the estate tax, costing billions in revenue and giving a huge tax cut to the very wealthiest Americans.
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From Vermont to Appalachia to Texas, Citizens Say No to Dirty Power
Ever seen a human oil spill? It's not a lot like the real thing, except in the ways that it is: black, silent and ominously stationary - because these bodies, like crude, aren't going anywhere.
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Meet Texas' Worst Polluter
The long, sordid history of Texas’ most brazen polluter, Gulf Chemical & Metallurgical Corporation in Freeport.
