Economy-Labor
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The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn’t Know
Robert Reich :-: January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger [...] -
Former Wall Street Trader: ‘There’s No Other Industry Where You Could Get Paid So Much For Doing So Little’
One of the problematic developments for the U.S. economy in the last several decades has [...] -
Corporate Taxes As Percentage Of Profits Now Lowest In Decades
As a percentage of ever-growing profits, corporations are paying less in taxes than they have [...] -
Republicans prohibit funding for high speed rail
House Republicans late Thursday night adopted an amendment that would prohibit California from receiving any [...] -
America’s Jobs Deficit, and Why It’s Still More Important than the Budget Deficit
Robert Reich :-: The most significant aspect of January’s jobs report is political. The fact [...] -
As Jobs Go Global, U.S. Workers Pay
“free”-trade induced, because free trade isn’t really free on the part of foreign nations, which [...] - More from Economy-Labor
Health and Wellness
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Life & Happiness With Laura Rowley: How To Sleep Better (VIDEO)
As people age, it gets tougher to get a good night’s sleep, for a variety [...] -
Author Of ‘The End Of Illness,’ Offers Surprising Tips To Live Better, Longer
Dr. David Agus spoke with “CBS This Morning” about his new book “The End of [...] -
What Planned Parenthood actually does, in one chart
abortion services account for about 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s activities.
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Rep. Speier Pulls Support From Breast Cancer Foundation Over Decision To Sever Ties With Planned Parenthood
Yesterday, America’s most well-known breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen succumbed to right-wing pressure and [...] -
Why Are US Health Costs So High? Follow the Bills
"Why does an appendectomy in Germany cost roughly a quarter what it costs in the [...] -
Sickened and Still Waiting for Justice: 9/11 First Responders and Cold War Nuclear Weapons Workers Battle for Fair Compensation
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (Zadroga Act) and the Energy Employees Occupational [...] - More from Health and Wellness
Crime, Legal Issues
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As BP Profits Gush Skywards, Deal May Be Cut to Allow BP to Avoid Trial
BP returned to profit with a bang in 2011, revealing Tuesday that it made $24 [...] -
Why the AGs Must Not Settle: Robo-signing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Ellen Brown......There is another way to design a banking system.
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Eric Schneiderman Sues BofA, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase Over Electronic Mortgage Fraud
It's about GOD DAMN TIME somebody did, Mr. President, Mr Holder!
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Charlie White, Indiana Election Chief, Found Guilty Of Voter Fraud
Indiana’s top elections official could lose his job and his freedom after jurors convicted him [...] -
SEC Probes Deutsche Bank’s ‘Crap’ Subprime CDOs
The Securities and Exchange Commission investigates a Wall Street behemoth over claims that it assembled [...] -
Stock Act: Senate Moves To End Congressional Insider Trading
The Senate advanced a bill Monday that aims to curb potential insider trading by Congress. [...] - More from Crime, Legal Issues
Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
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Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD
On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in [...] -
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama
At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch [...] -
Ari Fleischer Secretly Involved in Komen Strategy on Planned Parenthood
Fleischer’s relationship with Komen was previously undisclosed
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‘Gasland’ Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans
In a stunning break with First Amendment policy, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to [...] -
Super PAC Power: The 0.1% Buying Our Elections
FEC disclosures yesterday show wealthy donors, corporations behind Super PAC money
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Wall Street Journal Slammed for Giving Platform to Climate Change Deniers
Research shows that more than 97% of scientists actively publishing in the field agree that [...] - More from Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
Environment
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Temperature Soars Mysteriously Inside Fukushima Nuclear Reactor
Japan's Nuclear Exclusion Zone Shows Few Signs of Life
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Climate Scientists Rebuke Rupert Murdoch: WSJ Denier Op-Ed Like ‘Dentists Practicing Cardiology’
In a scathing letter to the editor, thirty-eight of the world’s top climatologists have rebuked [...] -
Wall Street Journal Slammed for Giving Platform to Climate Change Deniers
Research shows that more than 97% of scientists actively publishing in the field agree that [...] -
Monsanto Returns to the Scene of the Crime
Whenever I hear the name Monsanto I can’t help but think about one of the [...] -
More Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Mass Bee Deaths
“The science is now clear, bees poisoned by neonicotinoid pesticides are much more likely to [...] -
No Fracking Way! Industry Says Word ‘Frack’ Has Been Co-Opted
“It’s Madison Avenue hell” “Hydraulic fracturing” is more commonly known as “fracking.” During this week’s [...] - More from Environment
Energy
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The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of [...] -
The Shadow Banking System: A Web of Financial Fraud
The public sector banking model deserves further study.
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Dirty Biofuels: Leaked Data Shows Some Worse Than Fossil Fuels
Palm oil and soy bean biodiesel nearly as bad as tar sands According to leaked [...] -
The Radioactive Waste Crisis
Before the month of January is out, the US Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission [...] -
Fukushima Fallout: Thousands Protest Against Nuclear Power in Japan
Thousands of demonstrators hit the streets of Yokohama, Japan on Saturday afternoon calling for an [...] -
Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima
It is one of the marvels of our time that the nuclear industry managed to [...] - More from Energy
Politics
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Can Democrats Landslide Republicans?
Ralph Nader :-: I often ask Congressional Democrats these days: “If you agree that your [...] -
The right’s stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left
Conservativism may be the refuge of the dim. But the room for rightwing ideas is [...] -
Romney Has Not Answered Voter Questions In 3 Weeks
Mitt Romney answered his last question from a voter three weeks ago, and just about [...] -
Gingrich and Romney Want to Say Adios to Bilingual Ballots
The GOP front-runners endorse a plan that could disenfranchise millions of voters—including their own. As [...] -
Obama hosts George H.W. and Jeb Bush at White House
Unbeknownst to the press, President Obama met Friday evening with former president George H.W. Bush [...] -
Obama’s Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton
I’ll admit it: Listening to Barack Obama, I am ready to enlist in his campaign [...] - More from Politics
Rightwing World
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UPDATE: Komen confirms continued involvement of Ari Fleischer on Planned Parenthood strategy
Yesterday, ThinkProgress exclusively reported Ari Fleischer’s involvement — dating back at least to December — [...] -
Ann Coulter Confronts Mitt Romney: ‘You Owe Me’ (AUDIO)
During a radio appearance on Thursday, conservative pundit Ann Coulter revealed that she once had [...] -
Denny Rehberg, GOP Congressman And Senate Hopeful, Blasts Child Labor Regulations
In a speech expounding on the rift between rural America and Washington D.C., Rep. Denny [...] -
Shadrack McGill, Alabama State Senator, Says Keeping Teacher Pay Low ‘A Biblical Principle’
Someone alert the unions: raising teacher pay will actually make for worse teachers–according to one [...] -
Joe Walsh Trailing Democrats In Illinois 8th District Poll: Duckworth Leading Krishnamoorthi
A new poll shows U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh trailing Democrats in Illinois’ 8th District. The [...] -
Colorado Republicans Push Bill To Allow Guns In Elementary Schools
Abandoning any pretense that they’re focused on job creation, Colorado Republicans have clarified their priorities [...] - More from Rightwing World
Science & Technology
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Floating Cities Could Be A Reality Within Decades (VIDEO)
It’s not just a pipe dream. The Seasteading Institute, a think-tank out of California, is [...] -
Volcanoes Caused Little Ice Age, Baffin Island Study Suggests
When the weather suddenly got colder in Northern Europe a few centuries ago, some people [...] -
UFO Found In Baltic Sea? (VIDEO)
A team of shipwreck hunters that found a strange circular object on the floor [...] -
Mars Pictures: NASA Releases New Images From Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA on Wednesday added four spectacular images to its 20,500-photo database of high-resolution images of [...] -
Origins Of Life Clues Revealed By Sugar Study
How did life originate from lifeless matter? It’s a question that has long puzzled scientists [...] -
Study: Potential Hazards of Nanotechnology Not Known
Without research into risks, “the future of safe and sustainable nanotechnology-based materials, products, and processes [...] - More from Science & Technology
Religion
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Just the Facts: Churches and the Contraceptive Coverage Mandate
The Obama administration’s recent decision to require all employers, with the exception of churches and [...] -
Denum Ellarby Refused Communion Because He Has Down Syndrome, Parents Say
Clare Ellarby says her child wasn’t allowed to take his first Holy Communion because he [...] -
Daniele Bolelli: Believe It Or Not: 7 Facts You’re Not Supposed To Know About Religion
Religion is one of those big taboo topics that many people are terrified to touch: [...] -
Pope Laments Christmas Consumerism, Urges People To Look Beyond ‘Superficial Glitter’
Pope Benedict XVI decried the increasing commercialization of Christmas as he celebrated Christmas Eve Mass [...] -
An Atheist’s Plea on Christmas: ‘Go Enjoy Real Life’
If anyone tries to make you feel ashamed, or inferior, or like your life will [...] -
The Neuroscience of the Bar Mitzvah
Attending a recent Bar Mitzvah ceremony, I was impressed, once again, by the [...] - More from Religion
Foregin Policy
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An attack on Iran must be stopped
As the US and UK gear up for another senseless war in the Middle East, [...] -
US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central [...] -
Report: US Preparing for an Israeli Strike on Iran
Iran: We have proof US behind assassination Iran is looking at “punishing” those behind the [...] -
Panetta: Iran Not Building a Nuclear Weapon
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta appears on CBS’ Face the Nation this morning and declared, [...] -
Obama’s Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire
In an age when U.S. power can be projected through private mercenary armies and unmanned [...] -
What’s Wrong With Free Trade
Ian Fletcher is Senior Economist of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, Ian Fletcher is [...] - More from Foregin Policy
World
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Huge Protest in Pakistan Against US Drone Attacks | Common Dreams
‘Drones are counter-productive’ Over 100,000 Pakistanis rallied in Karachi Friday afternoon to protest US drone [...] -
Occupied: Japanese Nuclear Foes Defy Order to Remove Tents
Occupying the Grounds of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Japanese anti-nuclear protesters defied [...] -
Japan Earthquake: Magnitude 7.0 Temblor Hits Off Japan’s Pacific Island
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan on Sunday, shaking buildings in [...] -
‘Russia Without Putin’: Huge Protests Assemble In Moscow
For a month now, a nascent protest movement has roiled Russia as Prime Minister Vladimir [...] -
It’s time that we valued people over profits, poll results show
The British public want business to put “people before profits” and to see politicians close [...] -
Prime Minister al-Maliki to US Chamber of Commerce: Iraq is open for business
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Tuesday that his country [...] - More from World
Military, War
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Officer: U.S. paints false picture of Afghan war
A US Army officer has accused the American military of painting a misleading picture of [...] -
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dempsey Told Israelis US Won’t Join Their War on Iran
Washington – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders [...] -
War on Iran: It’s Not A Matter of “If”
The world’s press is choc-a-bloc with “if” questions about Iran and war. Will Israel attack? [...] -
The Geo-Politics of the Strait of Hormuz: Could the U.S. Navy be defeated by Iran in the Persian Gulf?
The Pentagon’s own war simulations show that a war in the Persian Gulf with Iran [...] -
Cargo Drone Tested In Afghanistan
The U.S. military is testing a revolutionary new drone for its arsenal, a pilotless helicopter [...] -
Fawaz Gerges: The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda: Debunking the Terrorism Narrative
The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain have not only shaken [...] - More from Military, War
Social Issues
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Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power | Common Dreams
“Corporations are people, my friend.” Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair Corporations are obviously not [...] -
Big News on Bank Transfers
The Occupy effect? In the last 3 months, Americans switched banks at three times the [...] -
How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’ / Waging Nonviolence
their society’s high level of freedom and broadly-shared prosperity began when workers and farmers, along [...] -
Challenging the Republican’s Five Myths on Inequality
The Republican position on inequality rests on five statements, all false. Recent comments by Mitt [...] -
Ten Steps for Radical Revolution in the US
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the [...] -
War and Being and Nothingness
The best book I’ve read in a very long time is a new one: “The [...] - More from Social Issues
Other Recent Articles
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Infrastructure Problems In U.S. Go Far Beyond Dollars
When travelers from abroad come to this city, the financial and cultural capital of the world’s richest nation, two dilapidated and depressing airports greet them. The clogged runways, the leaking roofs, the maddening taxi lines, the lost travelers bumping into each other — all these depredations are just part of flying the friendly skies to [...]
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Republicans Start To Unite Around Call To Allow Billionaires And Corporations To Directly Fund Campaigns
Eight in 10 Americans believe that there is too much money in American politics, and only 17 percent agree with the Supreme Court that corporations should be allowed to spend unlimited money to try to influence elections. Yet top Republicans are coalescing around the idea that current campaign finance laws — which still prohibit [...]
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The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012, and What’s the Economy For Anyway?
Robert Reich :-: \Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos a few days ago, said the “critical risks” facing the American economy this year were a worsening of Europe’s chronic sovereign debt crisis and a rise in tensions with Iran that could stoke global oil prices. What about jobs and [...]
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Big Banks’ Small Business Lending: Do The Numbers Really Add Up?
Big banks’ reputations have taken a hit over the last few years, starting with the financial crisis and culminating with the Occupy Wall Street protests. Meanwhile, small businesses have been cast as the economy’s earnest underdogs, generating rhetorical support from Congress to the campaign trail to Wall Street. So it’s no surprise that Bank of [...]
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Senate Democrats To Push ‘Buffett Rule’ Bill This Week
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) announced Monday that he will unveil “Buffett Rule” legislation this week. President Barack Obama highlighted the need for such a measure at the State of the Union earlier this month and will likely continue to call for it throughout his presidential re-election campaign. Whitehouse is expected to introduce the Paying a [...]
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