The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Operation Green Jobs: Join the 150-mile March to DC
An upcoming action is simultaneously taking on the unemployment crisis, the climate crisis, and the corporate corruption of Congress all at once. And it needs your support.
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Social Security's Explosive Injustices
Cutting Social Security is an outrageous injustice that may provoke historic shifts and splits in the political landscape.
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Lockdown, USA: Lessons From the Boston Marathon Manhunt
A generalized fear now shapes American society—one that thrives on insecurity, precarity, dread of punishment and concern with external threats.
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Small Town’s Drone Ban Sparks Statewide Discussion in Minnesota
St. Bonifacius may be just one square mile in size, but it was the first city in Minnesota to pass a ban on drones, igniting wider debates about the Fourth Amendment and constitutional rights to privacy.
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Local Fights Against Austerity are Growing Across the U.S.
A wave of local grassroots organizing proves the potential exists to galvanize a national movement against austerity.
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Former Obama Communications Director Profits Big with Keystone XL Pipeline
Obama's former communications director Anita Dunn is a corporate PR chief whose private firm will gain from tar sands extraction and shipment.
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Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama
Obama's attack on civil liberties go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain. He doesn't gain anything from it – he doesn't get any political mileage out of it.
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Obama's Secret “Free Trade” Deals Will Enrich Multinationals and Big Finance
Obama's two proposed mega-trade deals — the Trans-Pacific Partnership and US-European Union “Free Trade” Agreement — favor major corporations by weakening regulations and strengthening intellectual property laws.
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19-Year-Old Kennedy: Why It’s Worth Going to Jail to Stop Keystone XL
Ever since I chained myself to the White House fence with 47 other protestors urging President Obama to kill the Keystone pipeline, people have asked me why I felt so strongly about the issue.
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Waking Up From the Forever “War on Terror”: Are We There Yet?
Without a clear and effective upsurge of grassroots opposition, Americans can expect to remain citizens of a war-driven country for the rest of their lives.
