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Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and social transformation, and real regime change under way is led by people themselves. US military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction. Read the Full Story

Pentagon Said to Seek $80 Billion for War Amid Withdrawal The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat operations, the least since 2005, as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, according to administration officials. Read the Full Story

Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brown. In a time when America’s politicians strive to be everywoman and everyman, Brown goes his own way. While a nation frantically chases youth, the 75-year-old governor who glories in his age and experience, is at the top of his game. Read the Full Story

No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including the Chicago Tribune and L.A. Times -- are up for sale. And one of the potential buyers? The Koch brothers. And wow are people outraged! Read the Full Story

Video: Pentagon Accused of 'Rewriting Constitution' to Wage Endless War in Senate Hearing Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Read the Full Story

An urgent message to 200 members of Congress They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign. Read the Full Story

When the IRS targeted liberals Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a liberal church. Read the Full Story

Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 1--donors on the record Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Read the Full Story

Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 2--donors OFF the record, or off the radar The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats Some of you might remember "CREEP" from 1972's Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could've been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself, but instead it referred to the "Committee to RE-Elect the President." Read the Full Story

H.R. 1000, the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act” Since 2000 more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. have closed and roughly 50,000 industrial jobs have been lost each month. Now service sector jobs, where the remaining two-thirds of all workers are currently employed, are disappearing. Read the Full Story

Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtained a trove of journalists' phone records in what its chief executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion Read the Full Story

MAJOR PUSH AT CONGRESS: PROSPERITY, NOT AUSTERITY More Than 175 Members of Congress to be urged to Support Legislation to Tax Wall Street, Raise Revenue for Main Street Recovery and Bring a Halt to Austerity

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Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives

Pentagon Said to Seek $80 Billion for War Amid Withdrawal

Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man

No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe

Video: Pentagon Accused of 'Rewriting Constitution' to Wage Endless War in Senate Hearing

An urgent message to 200 members of Congress

When the IRS targeted liberals

Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 1--donors on the record

Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 2--donors OFF the record, or off the radar

H.R. 1000, the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act”

Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records

MAJOR PUSH AT CONGRESS: PROSPERITY, NOT AUSTERITY

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Monday, 05 March 2012 02:38

Cantor opponent Wayne Powell to serve as pro bono counsel for some of "Capitol Square 31"

Written by The Richmonder

Earlier this evening I spoke with Wayne Powell, one of three 7th Congressional District Democrats seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to face off against Eric Cantor this November. Powell told me that when he heard what had happened at Virginia's Capitol Square, he hurried downtown to offer his legal services to the protesters that had been arrested.

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Sunday, 04 March 2012 22:51

Wayne Powell reacts to Police Overreaction at Demonstration

Written by Wayne Powell

E. Wayne Powell, candidate for the Democratic nomination against Eric cantor in the Seventh Congressional District, today released this statement about the incidents at the Capitol.

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Monday, 19 September 2011 00:00

"Eric Cantor's War on American Jobs" by E. Wayne Powell

Written by E. Wayne Powell

My name is Wayne Powell, and I'm a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia's 7th Congressional District to replace Eric Cantor. Americans need good jobs now. Let's face it, as a nation we tend to define ourselves by what we do. I am an attorney and a retired military officer. When you deny Americans an opportunity to do meaningful work and contribute to their community by providing services, you are attacking a key part of their individual identities.

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Thursday, 06 October 2011 00:00

OWS: The Basis of All That Is Good and Right About Our Country

Written by E. Wayne Powell | Daily Kos

Occasionally I take a long weekend. It’s a chance to take a break from the profession, and the campaign. Last weekend I travelled to New York City. What started as a getaway ended in an exhilarating glimpse of democracy in action.

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Thursday, 20 October 2011 00:00

Wayne Powell Has an Amazing Week

Written by J.C. Wilmore | DailyKos

E. Wayne Powell, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to take on Eric Cantor in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, has had a really amazing week. It all started last Thursday when Powell received the endorsement of the Progressive Democrats of America's chapter in Virginia's 7th CD. Powell's education and experience—especially his service in the military—make him exceptionally well equipped to face Cantor.

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