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- Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headqu...
- Millions of Americans are deep in medical debt. Unfortunately, the Affordab...
- Immigrants don’t just pick our fruit, deliver our take-out food and desig...
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- Two days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in...
- The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the...
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- During the Bush II Era, excessive deficit spending was no big deal for Repu...
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Burning Tulsa: The Legacy of Black Dispossession
Written by Linda Christensen | Zinn Education Project
None of my mostly African American 11th graders in Portland had ever heard of the so-called Tulsa Race Riot, even though it stands as one of the most violent episodes of dispossession in U.S. history.
Imposing Syria 'No Fly Zone' Would Be Act of War, Warn Critics
Written by Jon Queally | Common Dreams
Peace advocates and policy experts say euphemistic term belies reality that massive bombing campaign would come first
A few days ago, I was listening to a radio talk show discussion of the bill passed on May 7 by the New York City Council, requiring some businesses to provide paid sick leave to employees.
Non-Approved GMO Wheat Found On Oregon Farm
Written by Common Dreams Staff
Discovery of Monsanto crop may affect food-label fight
Wednesday afternoon, officials with the US Department of Agriculture announced the detection of a non-approved strain of genetically modified (GMO) wheat on an 80-acre Oregon farm.
The new farm bill is an economic disaster
Written by Heidi Moore | The Guardian
Just when you think Congress can't get any dumber, it crafts a $1tn farm bill that harms the poor and promotes unhealthy food
The US Congress, its approval rating still near all-time lows, is reinforcing its own record of stupefyingly short-sighted lawmaking with what may be the most harmful piece of economic legislation in America in years: the $1tn 2013 farm bill.
A new home for poverty in America
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower.com
It's been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation's political agenda – and it's time to move it up again.
Blending classical literature with the computer technology of subterranean imaging, scientists have made an astonishing discovery – namely, there is a tenth level of Hell!
Corporate kleptocrats are the real radicals
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower .com
"Outside radical groups," squawked Rep. Scott Garrett at a recent Republican inquisition into a citizens' petition that's been submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Pacific islands’ deadly threat from climate change
Written by Phillip Muller | Washington Post
For almost 70 years, my country, the Marshall Islands, has been fighting for its survival. Unfortunately, the threats we face are the result of forces we cannot control.
The high-tech sledgehammering of our middle-class future
Written by Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower .com
Sometimes, the collusion between big corporations and "our" government is so ridiculous, so rancid that is makes you laugh, cry, and gag – all at once – and then you pass out from the sheer stink of it.
PDA In Your State
