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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"Spoils": Film Documents Americans Who Reap An "Extraordinary Harvest" From Waste
The modern freeganism movement — also known simply as dumpster diving — has spawned a culture of its own.
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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia, as elites establish a world where most will be hungry and live in fear while a few will gorge themselves on delicacies in protected compounds.
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Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
While increasing corporate patent rights and curbing Internet freedom, the TPP would also establish an "international tribunal" to enforce the "rights" of corporations over governmental law regarding environment, finance and labor rights.
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Numbers To Die For: What the Ultra Rich Are Getting Away With
Here are ten facts that reveal the deadening effects of inequality in our country and confirm that tax avoidance, rather than a lack of middle-class initiative, is the cause.
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Momentum Builds for Historic Black Friday Strike at Walmart
In a taste of what the nation’s largest retailer can expect on Black Friday, frustrated Walmart workers have started walking off their jobs to protest their employer’s attempts to silence outspoken workers.
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Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Reach New Record
Between 1990 and 2011 there was a 30 percent increase in radiative forcing—the warming effect on our climate—because of CO2 and other heat-trapping long-lived gases.
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Why is the Private Prison Industry in Our Schools?
The school-to-prison pipeline is an interlocking system of local, state, and federal educarceral policies that unduly siphon students from the school yard to the prison yard.
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Techtivist Report: Beware the Black-Box
Russia stole the lead this month in the race for Total Surveillance with the introduction of a law to ostensibly to trap pedophiles and prevent terrorist attacks that delves deep into its citizens' emails and watch everything they do online.
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How To Oust a Congressman, Part 2: Narrative Control
The primary goal of narrative control is to turn your Congressman’s name into a toxic brand that nobody wants to associate with.
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From Australia, Chronicle of a Military Base Blockade
At the end of September, a group of 40 people demonstrated that small numbers are no barrier to successful nonviolent action by blockading the entrance of one of the most significant military bases in Australia over two days.
