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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Occupy Hit Job: Why Is The New York Times Smearing Cecily McMillan?
When a journalist in a news article refers to a woman as “strident,” you know what you’re reading is a hit piece – and that's what the New York Times produced about Occupy Wall Street activist McMillan.
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The Revolutionary Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has focused on infrastructure investment and self-determination for the people in his city, emphasizing local empowerment to “build a base of autonomous power."
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Why Mass Marches Still Matter: 2013’s March on Washington
If it is possible to organize a demonstration of hundreds of thousands, it is possible to expand a movement’s influence.
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The 1963 March on Washington, Then and Now
A critical assessment of this event 50 years later reveals historical lessons relevant to contemporary movements for social and economic justice.
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Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
Is it justice when the U.S. president prosecutes whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity?
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America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, NSA Surveillance Now
As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington nears, let's not forget the history of agency overreach and abuse of power that occurred when the FBI doggedly pursued Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Global Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
As the world's largest bank, Wells Fargo is able to commit countless crimes -- fraud, illegal foreclosures, money laundering, you name it -- and continues to get away with them by paying relatively small fines.
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Global Power Project, Part 6: Banking on Influence With Bank of America
Bank of America and others continue to get "backdoor bailouts" through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which acts as a legal guarantor and protector of the Wall Street chain gang of criminal conglomerates.
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Nine CEOs Whose Greed is Destroying America
A gang of brazen CEOs has joined forces to promote economically disastrous and socially irresponsible austerity policies.
