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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Seven Brides For Seven Corporations
Days before the third anniversary of the Citizens United ruling, Occupy Wall Street organized an extravagant piece of political street theater: a wedding in which seven brides were to marry seven corporations.
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Wagging the Dog on Bahrain, Where U.S.-Backed Crackdown on Democracy Continues
Amid so many non-news stories in the past few weeks, the U.S. government aiding in Bahrain's brutal crackdown of nonviolent pro-democracy protests has gone completely unnoticed.
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Your Daily Dose of Satire: "N.R.A. Defends Right to Own Politicians"
We laugh, because we will cry if we don't.
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Money For Nothing: An Hourly Breakdown of Congressional Influence
Members of Congress spend just four hours a day doing the work citizens elected them to do.
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How Factory Farming is Burning Up Our Planet
Organic consumers and climate hawks alike are taking a more comprehensive look at the fundamental causes of global warming - and finding that industrial food and farming systems are the major cause.
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Three Ways to Block Republican Gerrymandering of the Electoral College
RNC chairman Reince Priebus is promoting one of the most blatant assaults on democracy in modern times—a scheme to gerrymander the Electoral College so that the loser of the popular vote could win key states and the presidency.
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The Military Spy Drone So Powerful It Can See Your iPhone from 17,500 Feet
The ARGUS-IS can view an area of 15 square miles in a single image, with a zoom capability can detect an object as small as six inches on the ground.
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The Extremist Cult of Capitalism
Capitalism is a cult devoted to the ideals of privatization over the common good, profit over social needs, and control by a small group of people who defy the public's will.
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Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
Swiss researchers have found that of the world's 43,000 transnational corporations, a "super-entity" of 147 tightly-knit companies, which all own each other, collectively constitute 40% of the total wealth in the entire global network.
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Will Obama Heed Growing Calls for a National Climate Summit?
Because of a long-term disinformation campaign by oil and coal interests - six of the world's 10 largest corporations are oil companies - America has been complacent about the climate disruption that is happening. This is about to change.
