- Washington is descending into another silly season. Let’s end this divers...
- "Ewww. Don't do it, Patrick. Don't do it. Dogs pee here." A woman was giv...
- The Pentagon wants Congress to shift $9.6 billion of this year’s Defense ...
- What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and s...
- The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat op...
- One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brow...
- After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including t...
- Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have...
- They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, so...
- Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a libera...
- Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party...
- The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell gam...
- Since 2000 more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. have close...
- The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtai...
- More Than 175 Members of Congress to be urged to Support Legislation ...
- The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Young Americans are...
- A deeply flawed conventional wisdom is developing that despite warnings fro...
- A three-day boycott of the network protested a lack of coverage of the atta...
- The weak economy has caused people to postpone consumption of health care s...
- My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was f...
- Calls for a war with Syria mounted yesterday, despite mass popular oppo...
- Hide & seek can be a fun game for kids, but when huge corporations play...
- The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained documents revealing that th...
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It’s time to tax financial transactions
Written by Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post
On Friday at midnight, the sequester kicked in, triggering $85 billion in deep, dumb budget cuts that sent “nonessential personnel”— such as air traffic controllers — packing.
The AFL-CIO has a plan to save the movement.
As I waited outside the AFL-CIO’s closed-door executive council meeting on Tuesday at a hotel near Disney World, I recalled a conversation at another AFL-CIO meeting some 35 years ago.
Why Do Senators Boxer and Wyden Want to Bomb Iran
Written by Robert Naiman | Huffington Post
Remember when we pilloried John McCain for singing about bombing Iran?
Wouldn't it be a scandal if it turned out that California Senator Barbara Boxer and Oregon Senator Ron Wyden were pushing the same agenda?
I have bad news, I'm afraid. They are.
Ask your senator to help ensure six-day mail continues
Written by NALC President Fredric V. Rolando
As early as next week, the Senate is set to begin debate on extending the current continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, 2013. As you know, the language that mandates continuation of six-day-a-week mail delivery is part of the annual appropriations process and thus is included in the CR.
In Blind Poll, Republicans Choose Progressive Budget Solutions Over Their Own Party’s
Written by Jon Queally, staff writer | Common Dreams
Of three major proposals, majority of voters choose one least discussed amid "sequester" madness
When the Business Insider polled registered voters and asked for their preferences among three Congressional plans floated to avoid the looming "sequestration" cuts in Washington, they found that when stripped of their partisan labels, the policies most favorable to the majority were those offered by the progressive wing of the Democratic caucus.
Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs: Eliminate the Sequester NOW
Written by Congressional Progressive Caucus
Washington, D.C. — Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) released the following statement today after House Republicans failed to stop the sequester budget cuts – which are expected to cost as many as 1 million jobs – before the March 1st deadline.
'The Afghan People Are Fed Up': An Interview with Malalai Joya
Written by Common Dreams
Malalai Joya, 34, first gained international attention in 2003 when she spoke out publicly against the domination of warlords. She was at that time serving as an elected delegate to the Loya Jirga that was convened to ratify the Constitution of Afghanistan; in 2005 she became one of 68 women elected to the 249-seat National Assembly, or Wolesi Jirga, and was the youngest member of the Afghan parliament.
Lords of Disorder: Billions For Wall Street, Sacrifice For Everyone Else
Written by Richard Eskow | The Campaign For America's Future
The President’s “sequester” offer slashes non-defense spending by $830 billion over the next ten years. That happens to be the precise amount we’re implicitly giving Wall Street’s biggest banks over the same time period.
Stéphane Hessel, “father of indignados”, dies aged 95
Written by Jerome Roos | Roar Magazine
French resistance hero, co-drafter of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and author of pamphlet that helped inspire a global youth uprising, dies.
Right wing forces in this country are obsessed with the size of government, but the fundamental debate we should be having is not the size of government but what the goal of government should be: What should government's central mission be?
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