Richard Wolff on Capitalism’s Destructive Power
by Bill Moyers
on March 25, 2013
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Iraq War Among World's Worst Events
by David Swanson
on March 18, 2013
U.S. deaths in Iraq since 2003 have been 0.3% of the dead, even if they've taken up the vast majority of the news coverage, preventing U.S. news consumers from understanding the extent of Iraqi suffering.
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Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
by Norman Solomon
on March 18, 2013
On a plane circling Baghdad in gray dawn light, a little Iraqi girl quietly sang to herself in the next row. “When I start to wonder why I’m making this trip,” Sean Penn murmured to me, “I see that child and I remember what it’s about.”
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Which Members of Congress Are Standing Up for Economic Decency – And Which “Progressives” Aren’t
by Norman Solomon
on March 15, 2013
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Maryland: of, by, and for Lockheed Martin
by David Swanson
on March 11, 2013
What's the world's biggest war profiteer to do if it already owns the federal government but is having trouble kicking around the local government of Montgomery County, Maryland, where it's headquartered? Why, hire the state of Maryland to step in, of course.
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Gun “Background Check” on Pentagon
by Norman Solomon
on March 09, 2013
By Norman Solomon
Stringent “background checks” are central to many proposals for curbing gun violence. The following is a background check on the nation’s largest buyer of firearms:
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Fighting for Economic Justice and Fair Wages
by Richard Wolff
on March 01, 2013
Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill Moyers to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism’s wake, and to discuss the fight for economic justice, including a fair minimum wage. A Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, and currently Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School, Wolff has written many books on the effects of rampant capitalism, including Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.
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Progressive Caucus members who haven't stood up
As of now, the following House members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have NOT signed the letter initiated by Congressmen Alan Grayson and Mark Takano pledging: “We will vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits -- including raising the retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments that our constituents earned and need.”
Updated on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 @ 21:59
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Congress: End Endless War and Stop Becoming "the Evil That We Deplore"
by Norman Solomon
on February 21, 2013
By Norman Solomon
Congress waited six years to repeal the Tonkin Gulf Resolution after it opened the bloody floodgates for the Vietnam War in August 1964.
If that seems slow, consider the continuing failure of Congress to repeal the “war on terror” resolution -- the Authorization for Use of Military Force -- that sailed through, with just one dissenting vote, three days after 9/11.
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What Obama Said -- and What He Meant -- About Climate Change, War and Civil Liberties
by Norman Solomon
on February 14, 2013
By Norman Solomon
The words in President Obama’s “State of the Union” speech were often lofty, spinning through the air with the greatest of ease and emitting dog whistles as they flew.
Let’s decode the president’s smooth oratory in the realms of climate change, war and civil liberties.
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