Economy-Labor
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2013 Deficit To Shrink To $642 Billion: Congressional Budget Office
A new government estimate says the budget deficit for the current year will come in [...] -
The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong
EVERYTHING THEY KNOW IS WRONG
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The case for budget ‘austerity’ has proved to be a joke, but the US and Europe still won’t change course
It appears that the Reinhart-Rogoff battles over their faulty data about government debt have flamed [...] -
New Study Debunks ANOTHER Popular GOP Talking Point
Extended Benefits Didn’t Keep Unemployed From Taking Jobs: Study Extended unemployment benefits Congress put in [...] -
Austerity Has Cost The U.S. Economy 2.2 Million Jobs: Study
There are more than 2 million unemployed Americans who might have jobs today if not [...] -
Big Oil Profits—and Tax Breaks—Remain High Despite Sequestration Cuts
Middle-class families have gotten some relief at the pump this spring due to declining gasoline [...] - More from Economy-Labor
Health and Wellness
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Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks
If there is one problem that symbolizes the ongoing national healthcare emergency, it is the [...] -
Illinois Now Just One Signature From Legal Medical Marijuana
Illinois on Friday took one more big step toward becoming the 19th state to legalize [...] -
Americans Who Battle Cancer Are Twice As Likely To Go Bankrupt, Even If They Have Health Insurance
Cancer patients are much more likely to go bankrupt than Americans who aren’t faced with [...] -
Obamacare Won’t Cause Employers To Drop Health Benefits: Survey
Common Obamacare Criticism Debunked
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Food Fraud A Growing Concern
Food imports from China are undergoing great scrutiny as public fear of fraud and lack [...] -
Marijuana Linked To Lower Bladder Cancer Risk, Study Says
People who smoke marijuana may be less likely to get bladder cancer than those who [...] - More from Health and Wellness
Crime, Legal Issues
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John Paul Stevens: Bush v. Gore Decision Rationale Was ‘Unacceptable’
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday cast doubt on the criteria used [...] -
Treasury Officials Told Of IRS Probe In June 2012
Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints [...] -
Andy Haldane Praises Brown-Vitter Bill To End ‘Too Big To Fail’
A senior Bank of England official influential in global policy debates has praised proposed U.S. [...] -
Elizabeth Warren Pushes Feds For Answer On Big Bank Enforcement
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised the stakes of her quest to find out why a [...] -
Tax Rates Down, Havens Thriving: Corporations Win, Workers Pay
“When American companies shirk their tax bill, ordinary taxpayers and small businesses are forced to [...] -
IRS Targeted Tea Party Tax-Exempt Groups – And Missed The Real Problem
...political committees masquerading as 501(c)(4) groups to evade public disclosure laws
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Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
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Elizabeth Warren Slams ‘Dangerous’ Legislation That Would Weaken Wall Street Reform
A week after a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee overwhelmingly [...] -
Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on Your Rights, and democracy
Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more “Monsanto Riders” [...] -
Obama’s Disturbing Record On Whistleblowers
In more than four years of office, President Barack Obama has frequently praised the idea [...] -
Pentagon ‘Rewrites Constitution’ Affirming Endless War
Senate hearing on the Authorization for Use of Military Force confirms congressional war powers rendered [...] -
Two GOP Judges Just Voted To Eliminate Union Rights, Here’s How The Senate Can Stop Them
Two events this morning strike at the heart of whether workers have the right to [...] -
Revealed: How US State Department ‘Twists Arms’ on Monsanto’s Behalf
Selling seeds, selling out democracy: US State Department does biotech industry’s bidding The U.S. State [...] - More from Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
Environment
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Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2
Conservative states, business groups, fossil fuel companies, and politicians who deny the science of climate [...] -
Tar sands make climate change ‘unsolvable’: Hansen
Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change [...] -
NASA: Burning Tar Sands = ‘Unsolvable’ Climate Crisis
NASA's leading climate scientist James Hansen:
We have a 'tremendously chaotic' climate on the [...] -
Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2
Conservative states, business groups, fossil fuel companies, and politicians who deny the science of climate [...] -
Scientists Agree (Again): Climate Change Is Happening
Public opinion on the topic of climate change is notoriously fickle, changing — quite literally [...] -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Talks Climate Change, Big Oil And Republicans
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. president of Waterkeeper Alliance, joined HuffPost Live on Tuesday to discuss [...] - More from Environment
Energy
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Big Oil’s (Taxpayer Subsidized) Big Profits
Here’s an example of how government subsidies distort market economics: Gas prices are down nearly [...] -
27 years since Chernobyl and what have we learned?
April 26th marks the 27th anniversary of the devastating accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power [...] -
Is 70 Percent Renewable Power Possible?
Portugal Just Did It For 3 Months
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‘No Nukes!’: Fukushima Protesters Out in Force Ahead of Two-Year Anniversary
‘I am going to fight against those who act as though Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima [...] -
Fukushima: Two Years Later
Over the last two years, questions arise as to whether the Fukushima nuclear disaster is [...] -
Cape Wind: Regulation, Litigation And The Struggle To Develop Offshore Wind Power In The U.S.
In 2001, Jim Gordon, a well-heeled developer of natural gas plants in New England, took [...] - More from Energy
Politics
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GOP Sources Altered Benghazi E-Mails To Suggest A Cover-Up, Reporter Confirms
The actual email read:
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Reince Priebus Issues Warning On Calls For Impeachment
As President Barack Obama’s administration continues to face the fallout from three separate political scandals, [...] -
Full White House Benghazi Email Undermines GOP’s Cover-Up Claims
CNN has obtained the full email from a White House official on the Benghazi talking [...] -
Embassy Staff Undercuts ‘Whistleblower’ Testimony On Benghazi
Staff who served in Libya with Gregory Hicks, the GOP’s primary “whistleblower” in this week’s [...] -
A sequester solution
Elizabeth Warren :-: We can’t solve our country’s budget problems with a meat-ax. Sequestration isn’t [...] -
Guantanamo Camp Costs $900,000 A Year Per Inmate
It’s been dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth and President Barack Obama cited the [...] - More from Politics
Rightwing World
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How America’s Endless Civil War Between Protestant Sects Is at the Heart of American Identity
The conservative Protestants vying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination left many mainline Protestants wondering [...] -
Rewriting History: GOP Senator Pretends He Voted For Expanded Background Checks
On his Facebook page Friday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) denied he ever voted against strengthened [...] -
Congressman: Legalized Abortions Cause School Shootings
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is overturning Roe v. [...] -
Obama Scandals Evoke Unholy, Perhaps Risky GOP Glee
Nothing is what it seems in Washington at the moment you see it. A triple [...] -
Issa: Obama Covered Up Benghazi Terrorism By Calling It An ‘Act Of Terror’
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) responded to President Obama’s forceful condemnation of the GOP’s [...] -
Newt Gingrich Confused About Technology (VIDEO)
Will somebody please help out Newt Gingrich? He can’t seem to figure out what to [...] - More from Rightwing World
Science & Technology
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The First 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Fired (VIDEO)
The world’s first 3D printed gun fired its first shot on Sunday, according to this [...] -
Speed Of Light May Not Be Constant After All, Physicists Say
The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring [...] -
Solar-Powered Plane Makes Big Advance
A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe took to the skies Friday [...] -
5 Things You Don’t Know About Your Brain:
Earlier this month, President Obama announced a proposal to fully map the activity of the [...] -
Steven Greer ‘Sirius’ Documentary To Unveil Pictures Of Alleged Tiny Space Alien (PHOTOS)
Stories about the mummified remains of what some call a space alien, went viral over [...] -
‘Artificial leaf’ makes clean energy from dirty water
What’s all this fuss about silly federal research projects? If one day in the not [...] - More from Science & Technology
Religion
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Would Jesus Cut Food Stamps?
Republican and Democrats sparred this week on where Jesus Christ would stand on food stamps, [...] -
The Acts of a Few
The Acts of a Few | Center for American Progress. [...] -
Mississippi High School Sued For Forcing Students To Attend Religious Assembly
A high school in central Mississippi finds itself in court after allegedly holding a mandatory [...] -
‘Family’ Group Co-Opts Tragedy To Oppose ‘Sexual Liberalism’
In an email sent to supporters before Thursday night’s manhunt began in Massachusetts, the Family [...] -
Pat Robertson Says America’s Middle East Peace Push Is ‘Asking For The Wrath Of Almighty God’
Pat Robertson does not think the United States’ push for peace in the Middle East [...] -
North Carolina House Speaker Kills Bill To Create State Religion
The Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives killed legislation on Thursday that [...] - More from Religion
Foregin Policy
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We Are Losing Ownership And Control Of Our Country At A Frightening Pace
The American economy is no longer competitive. We can’t compete with Chinese wage rates, Japanese [...] -
Free Trade has Eroded the American Way of Life
We have a Federal government because government is supposed to improve our lives.
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NAFTA: A Danger To U.S. Jobs, National Security
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has created detrimental consequences for American workers and [...] -
The Trade Deficit Reveals the Truth About Our Failed Trade Policy
The trade deficit is still a massive drain on the U.S. economy. It is estimated [...] -
NAFTA is Causing Manufacturing in the U.S. to Shut Down
The reason: to compete we must work for $4 an hour, which we can’t do. [...] -
Our Failed Policies Must Stop – We Can’t Continue Like This!
There are six paramount disastrous policies that have contributed to our economic vulnerability ...
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World
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Ignoring Risk of Regional Turmoil, Israel Launches Strikes in Syria
In the second such incident this year, the Israeli government on Saturday confirmed it launched [...] -
As Bangladesh Death Toll Exceeds 300, Major U.S. Retailers Refuse To Implement Safety Standards
The Bangladeshi garment factory whose collapse has cost 300 lives and counting never gained approval [...] -
World is Unprepared as Climate Change Starvation ‘Disaster’ Lies Ahead: Report
Millions of people will die of starvation across the world, as agricultural yields are expected [...] -
IMF Head Christine Lagarde Warns Monetary Policy Alone Will Not Fix Struggling Economies
The head of the International Monetary Fund hailed Japan’s unprecedented monetary policy boost this week [...] -
North Korea Reportedly Entering ‘State Of War’ Against South Korea
North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula was entering “a state of [...] -
‘No Nukes!’: Fukushima Protesters Out in Force Ahead of Two-Year Anniversary
‘I am going to fight against those who act as though Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima [...] - More from World
Military, War
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Jeffrey Krusinski, Air Force Officer In Charge Of Sexual Assault Prevention Program, Arrested For Alleged Sexual Assault
The Air Force officer in charge of the military branch’s sexual assault prevention program was [...] -
An Excuse for Syrian ‘Regime Change’?
Across Official Washington – including the neocon Washington Post and “liberal” MSNBC – pundits are [...] -
Report: The Pentagon Must Cut Spending
President Obama’s Pentagon budget proposal exceed’s last year’s request by $1 billion and CAP defense [...] -
Afghanistan Withdrawal Talks: Joint Chiefs Chairman Visits To Assess Situation
A weekend visit to Afghanistan by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is [...] -
‘Drone Pilot Medal’ Outranks Purple Heart!
A new medal that would honor drone pilots and cyber warriors and outrank battlefield combat [...] -
Military Suicides: One U.S. Veteran Dies Every 65 Minutes
The most extensive study yet by the U.S. government on suicide among military veterans shows [...] - More from Military, War
Social Issues
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Bangladesh Factory Safety: 14 Major Retailers Decline To Sign
Here are 14 North American retailers manufacturing goods in Bangladesh that have not signed the [...] -
Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Corporations
these corporate Goliaths work their tax lawyers overtime to escape U.S. taxes. Many pay less [...] -
Food Aid Cuts Headed To Senate Floor As House Readies Far Worse Bill
The average value of federal food aid will fall to $1.40 per person per meal [...] -
Wealth Gap Widens In Rich Countries As Austerity Threatens To Worsen Inequality: OECD
* Welfare spending vital to bridging growing wealth gap – OECD * Rich-poor divided widened [...] -
Outsourcing the Educated
As unemployment has taken its toll on the United States, politicians continue to echo that [...] -
Don’t Shoot – Organize!
It’s not easy but slow, hard and demanding – it takes long and patient activism [...] - More from Social Issues
Other Recent Articles
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5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About
This week, the national media has focused on the three different scandals surrounding the White House, devoting hours of coverage to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) improperly targeting conservative groups applying for tax exempt status, the talking points Susan Rice used in the aftermath of the attacks in Benghazi, and the Justice Department’s subpoena of [...]
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Unsubscribe: Threat of ‘Koch Hate’ Spawns ‘People’s Takeover’ | Common Dreams
Campaign attempts to outbid the billionaires as readers vow to flee As reports mount that the infamous Charles and David Koch brothers are scheming to purchase the Tribune Company, and hence the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, readers are standing up and saying they will not subscribe to “Koch hate.” A new petition, launched [...]
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Obama, Cameron Promote Trade Deal Granting Corporations Political Power
FASCISM. There is no other way to describe this.
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Prescription Drug Spending Drops As Struggling Americans Are Forced To Cut Back On Health Care
For the first time in decades, U.S. prescription drug spending dropped last year — a phenomenon largely stemming from the fact that, faced with spiraling health costs, Americans are being forced to cut back on their care wherever they can. According to a new report from IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, the nation’s total spending [...]
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Victims In Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion May Still Have To Pay Property Taxes
West, Texas continues to be rocked by the aftermath of the fertilizer plant explosion last month. Victims are now discovering they may still have to pay property taxes on their destroyed homes. While these homeowners can file protests until the end of May, the law requires property values to be determined on January 1 of [...]
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