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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Taking the Pledge: The Black Friday Walmart Strike
If Walmart workers across a wide swath of states refuse to come to work on the company's busiest day, Black Friday, it would be a huge win for workers over corporate greed and savage consumerism.
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Pussy Riot Band Members Sent to Remote Prison Camps
Two members of the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot have been sent to remote prison camps to serve their sentences, the group has said.
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Tens of Thousands Across Britain March Against Cuts
Nurses, firefighters, teachers and prison officers joined an estimated 100,000 protesters on Saturday in huge demonstrations against the government, loudly cheering calls for a 24-hour general strike.
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Senator Bernie Sanders Calls for End to Polluter Welfare
The big winners of federal support are the already immensely profitable fossil fuel and nuclear industries, not sustainable energy. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to eliminate all subsidies to the oil, gas and coal industries.
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Pennsylvania Greenlights Fracking on College Campuses
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett last week signed a bill authorizing schools to cut contracts with energy companies that will open the door for oil drilling, coal mining and fracking on college campuses across the state.
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Orwell Revisited: The Arithmetic of Political Lies
Those involved in politics — the politicians, reporters and corporate lobbyists — are constantly lying. It isn't so different from what George Orwell presented in "Animal Farm" and "1984." Here are the four basic types of political lies.
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Fanning the Flames of Debt Resistance
One year into Occupy, the movement has gone through something of a rebranding around the theme of debt.
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Rebellion in Greece: "The Time Has Come"
Greece was brought to a grinding halt by its second general strike in less than a month, as thousands protested Thursday in a mass outpouring of fury over austerity policies that have plunged ever growing numbers into poverty and fear.
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Poem: We're in Need of Repair
Bankers writing our laws, our rights to impair, playing tricks with the law, so they'll be billionaires. "And no one to prosecute," they proclaim with a flair: "It was more or less legal, we promise, we swear!"
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Occupy Our Homes Gears Up for December Campaign
This past year, activists across the country declared housing a human right. In December, the Occupy Our Homes movement will grow stronger.
