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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Fear of a Drone Planet
One In three Americans are afraid of police using unmanned aircrafts to track suspected criminals at home.
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America is Not Broke!
We have been told repeatedly that America is broke, that something must be cut and/or taxes raised or we will drown in debt. But these five multi-trillion dollar economic reforms would turn the American economy around to the positive.
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Nonviolent Resistance Works
Teachers in Chicago, Verizon workers, and students in Quebec recently proved that not only are strikes and general resistance and dissent essential to any democracy, they also work.
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Presidency, Inc.: Why No Candidate Will Save Us
Corporate power, no matter who is running the ward after January 2013, is poised to carry out U.S. history’s most savage assault against the poor and the working class, not to mention the Earth’s ecosystem.
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Letter to Libertarians: The People Are The Government
The Tea Party, as well as the Republicans and Democrats, embody corporate values and anti-democratic tendencies that threaten our country’s tradition of popular sovereignty.
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A New and Unusual Alliance Fights Tar Sands in Texas
In the tradition of forest defenders in the Northwest and mountain defenders in Appalachia, the Texas campaign to block the Keystone XL pipeline has embraced escalated direct action performed by people across the social and political spectrum.
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200,000 Greeks March on Parliament to Condemn Austerity
A general strike brought the country to a halt on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters took to the streets in the first mass confrontation with Athens's three-month-old coalition government.
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Elderly Veterans Facing Foreclosure
Veterans are increasingly losing their homes to foreclosure.
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Greek Anti-Austerity Protesters Greeted With Tear Gas
Riot police in Athens have fired tear gas at protesters who in turn have been lobbing stones and petrol bombs in one of the largest anti-austerity demonstrations to hit the Greek capital in months.
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Organizers Tackle Walmart Workers Rights, Florida's Voter Future
Two innovative groups leading the way for increased workers' and citizens' rights — the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OURWalmart) and Florida New Majority — are pushing towards a new form of network organizing.
