- "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...
- You see them in stores across our country and around the world: colorful an...
- Russia and the US have agreed to work towards convening an international co...
- You never know how popular you are, how smart you are, and how funny your j...
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Big Pharma Buys Off The Senate
Written by Bill Moyers | Healthcare - Now.org
An eleventh-hour loophole in the “fiscal cliff” deal confirms our worst suspicions about how Congress operates.
Private equity tax scammers at work
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower.com
Peg CeeCee knows that it's not enough to work hard in these perilous financial times, but you also have to work smart. And that's exactly what she's doing on behalf of American taxpayers
Exclusive - Petraeus: The Plot Thickens
Written by Douglas Lucas and Russ Baker | Who What Why.com
Was the ambitious General David Petraeus targeted for take-down by competing interests in the US military/intelligence hierarchy—years before his abrupt downfall last year in an adultery scandal?
The latest Global Competitiveness Report comparing 144 countries shows the sorry state of our country's development.
"The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013,” by the World Economic Forum, is t he latest annual ranking of 144 countries, on a wide range of factors related to global economic competitiveness .
Outlawing exposés of factory farm horrors
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower.com
Big Ag has a big problem – but it's come up with a neat solution.
The problem is that the meat, eggs, and dairy that are marketed to us as "wholesome" foodstuffs by such giants as Tyson, Smithfield, and Borden are actually produced in mammoth, mega-messy, monstrous factory farms.
The Interior Secretary's pricey throne
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower.com
Does the name Dirk Kempthorne mean anything to you?
He was a little-known Idaho politico before becoming George W. Bush's industry-coddling secretary of the interior in 2006.
The Old South's Last, Desperate Stand
Written by Michael Lind | AlterNet
Hysteria, aggression and gerrymandering are a fading demographic's last hope to maintain political control.
2 Years in Jail for Sitting on a Milk Crate? The Shocking Ways America Punishes Poor People Living on the Street (Hard Times, USA)
Written by Tana Ganeva | AlterNet
Laws all over the country are designed solely to target the homeless. There are better solutions.
Good retail jobs would be good for America
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower.com
The Powers That Be say that the bulk of America's middle-class manufacturing jobs are gone and won't be coming back. High tech jobs are being outsourced, too, as are accountants, lawyers, and some other professional positions. So, where does that leave us? Grasping at straws, the most abundant of which are retail jobs.
What's Next For the Voting Rights Movement?
Written by Brentin Mock | The Nation
Desmond Meade stood with his wife on the National Mall on that sunny Inauguration Day, listening to a speech delivered by a president he did not vote for. But he followed attentively, hoping to hear just a few words that might address a man like himself:
PDA In Your State
