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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Live from Virginia, a Worldwide Corporate Power Grab
It is difficult to overstate the potential implications on the lives of people around the world if anything like the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, as viewed through leaked documents, were to be implemented with the force of law.
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Will We Continue to Ignore the Poor?
We've got a problem in this country, though few politicians will say it out loud: poverty.
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Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup
At a protest last year at New York University, students called attention to their mounting debt by wearing T-shirts with the amount they owed scribbled across the front — $90,000, $75,000, $20,000.
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Growth is the Problem
The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let's not revive it.
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Dissent is Now a Crime
Massive police presence at the national political conventions has become a given. But what happens to all of the high-tech cop toys and newly passed anti-democratic ordinances once conventioneers leave town? They stay.
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The Strike is On in Chicago
The Chicago teachers' strike is on, and it's a worthy battle in the war on the poor.
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Historic Win for Restaurant Workers Union
Fired by a union-busting boss, several dozen workers from a New York Hot and Crusty occupied their restaurant - then opened their own sidewalk cafe, forcing their owner to cede to their demands.
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7 Ways to End the Deficit - Without Throwing Grandma Under the Bus
This fall, the U.S. Congress is going to wage a pitched, dragged-out battle over cutting roughly $120 billion a year to solve the so-called deficit crisis. Vital things like teachers’ jobs and Medicare could well get cut.
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The Constitution According to Barack Obama
Since most of the examination of our President comes from either the daily hypocrasies of Mitt and friends or the coddling progressive left, I thought I would examine “our guy” on a few issues with a bit more scrutiny and fairness.
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Democrats Retreat on Civil Liberties in 2012 Platform
The 2012 Democratic platform abandons or omits much of the '08 version's focus on civil liberties in the war on terror.