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    Occupy No Longer in Headlines But Activism Continues Nationwide
    David Swanson: Activists succeeding in turning public opinion against drone strikes; other forms of actions on the rise

    New Documentary Exposes the Mistreatment of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Greece
    Kate Mara and Guy Smallman: European governments impose austerity demands in Greece but fund detention centers in Greece for refugees. Xenophobic views expressed even by centrist parties

    3-Day March for Education Justice in Chicago
    A Collection of Photos by Jenna Pope

    Seizure of AP Phone Records Continues Obama Admin's Attack on Whistleblowers
    Mark Seibel (McClatchy Newspapers): Seizure of a news organization's phone records should be illegal as it limits the ability of journalists to investigate and report - something guaranteed by the Constitution

    80% of Gitmo Prisoners on Hunger Strike for 100 Days
    Group calls for cleared detainees to be released

    Taxing Corporate Profits will Force Investment
    Heiner Flassbeck: Corporations are sitting on mountains of cash and are unwilling to invest in the real economy - only high taxes on profit will make them do so


    Palestinians Mark 65th Anniversary of Nakba (Catastrophe of 1948)
    On Nakba day, Palestinians commemorate the annual anniversary by holding rallies asserting their right of return. 65 years have passed since historic Palestine was occupied in 1948

    Hundreds Take Part in "Poor People's March" Against Unemployment and Austerity
    Hundreds mark 45th anniversary of Dr. King's "Poor People's March" to highlight ongoing fight against inequality and high unemployment

    Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets
    Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable

    Apres Moi, Le Deluge - Make Money Now To Hell With Tomorrow
    Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: We're in worse shape now than in 2008 because at least then there was hope governments would face up to the situation

    William Fisher 

    FORE!
    By William Fisher It must have been the late 1950s and I couldn’t have been more than 18 – I hadn’t yet finished undergrad school. But I had a job on what was widely thought of as one ...

    Friday, 17 May 2013

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    Danny Schechter 

    The News That Isn't: How We Are Fed False Stories Driven By Missing Information
    By Danny Schechter The news is coming to us hot and heavy these days. There is scandal after scandal, outrage after outrage. The media playbook treats it all as a way to build audience, and raise ratings (and ...

    Friday, 17 May 2013

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    John Weeks 

    Economics for the 99% Death and Texas: the West Disasters in our future
    Hiroshima 1945? Good guess. The picture shows the town of West, Texas, after the explosion of a chemical warehouse on 17 April 2013. Source is wikicommons. It takes quite an effort to get yourself convicted of murder in Texas if yo...

    Tuesday, 14 May 2013

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    David Swanson 

    Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet
    By David Swanson
    http://warisacrime.org/content/why-we-allow-destruction-our-planet It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas.  Of course it is.  And if we had direct ...

    Tuesday, 14 May 2013

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    Ray McGovern 

    The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
    By Ray McGovern. This article was first published on Consortium News. For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America’s conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands ...

    Tuesday, 14 May 2013

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    Annie Machon 

    CIA and MI6 "ghost money" in Afghanistan
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking "ghost money" from the CIA and MI6. The sums are inevitably unknown, for the usual reasons of "national security", but are estimated to have been tens of millions of ...

    Tuesday, 14 May 2013

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    William Black 

    Brown-Vitter Will Not and Cannot Work but it is Criminogenic
    William K. Black Introduction Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) have introduced a bill entitled “Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act of 2013.” It is a miracle of modern staffing that Vitter, who loves polluters as much as his ...

    Saturday, 11 May 2013

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    Norman Solomon 

    Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole
    By Norman Solomon The president’s new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the rabbit hole his populist conceits have tumbled. Yet the Obama rhetoric about standing up for working people against “special ...

    Thursday, 9 May 2013

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    Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers 

    Turning Mirage Recovery into Real Recovery
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Recently, news reporters have been sounding almost giddy, saying that unemployment is dropping, housing prices are rising and the stock market is growing to new highs. But, these reports do not ring true with ...

    Wednesday, 8 May 2013

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    Robert Pollin and Michael Ash 

    Debt and Growth: A Response to Reinhart and Rogoff
    By ROBERT POLLIN and MICHAEL ASH AMHERST, Mass. THE debate over government debt and its relationship to economic growth is at the forefront of policy debates across the industrialized world. The role of the economics profession in shaping the ...

    Tuesday, 30 April 2013

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    Lynn Stuart Parramore 

    When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America
    By Lynn Stuart Paramore. This article was first published on AlterNet. Wage theft is fast becoming a top trend of the 21st-century labor market. Imagine you’ve just landed a job with a big-time retailer. Your task is to load and ...

    Monday, 29 April 2013

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    Soheil Asefi 

    In Defense of PEN: Salute Mr. Hedges
    by Soheil Asefi

    “This appointment makes a mockery of PEN as a human rights organization and belittles the values PEN purports to defend… I will wait until the organization returns to its original mandate to ...

    Thursday, 25 April 2013

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    Tony Wood 

    The Case for Chechnya
    By Tony Wood. This article was first published on The New Left Review. What happened was what always happens when a state possessing great military strength enters into relations with primitive, small peoples living their independent lives. Either ...

    Sunday, 21 April 2013

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