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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Drilling Through Lies
A new report reveals that ten of the world's largest oil and gas companies failed to report risks associated with deepwater drilling. Now, some banks are refusing to finance new, risky drilling operations in the Arctic.
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Showdown Brewing Against Fracking Pipeline in NYC
There’s a showdown out by the West Side Highway in Manhattan, that is, where Texas-based Spectra Energy Corp. has its finger on the trigger of a whole lot of hydraulically fracked natural gas that it’s just itching to pump into New York City.
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Coal Blockades Begin in Montana
Activists are taking on Big Coal in the heart of Big Sky country, where protests are underway to block new mining developments and halt coal transports west out of the Powder River Basin.
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Is Citi Engaging in Criminal Abuses of Servicemen Student Loans?
Mortgage services were found to be failing to reduce interest charges to 6% and foreclosing on military personnel who were deployed.
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In Today's America, You Die Poor
A new study shows that almost half of Americans die owning next to nothing, one-fifth die with absolutely nothing, and poor Americans are dying younger because they can't pay for medical treatment.
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Wichitans Take a Stand Against Police Shootings
Police brutality and arbitrary killings of civilians has spun out of control in Wichita, Kansas, where members of Occupy Wichita protested on Friday to demand justice for the victims.
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The Drones Are Upon Us
The age of the drones has arrived.
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Joseph Stiglitz: Inequality Undermines Prosperity
To fix the economy, we must boost demand. To do that, we have to address inequality.
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Nuns on the Run—For Justice
Defending America's hardest hit families, nuns challenge Mitt Romney to spend a day with them to learn about plight of the country's poor.
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The Next Frontier in Prison Privatization?
The fifth largest U.S. financial institution wants to invest a couple million dollars to reduce recidivism among teenage inmates at a New York prison. What's in it for the real criminals, i.e., Goldman Sachs?
