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Why I’m Starting the No Bullshit Party and Running for President

Jeff WaldCEO, ARIA Multimedia Entertainment After watching the so-called first Republican debate the other night in Iowa, I wanted to imitate Peter Finch in Network and open my window and scream that “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going … Continue reading

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Tomgram: Chris Hellman, The Pentagon’s Spending Spree

Posted by Christopher Hellman at 7:46am, August 16, 2011. China just launched a refitted Ukrainian aircraft carrier from the 1990s on its first test run — and that’s what the only projected “great power” enemy of the U.S. has to … Continue reading

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30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class Died

By Michael Moore From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, “When did this all begin, America’s downward slide?” They say they’ve heard of a time when working people could raise a family and send the kids to … Continue reading

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A Third Alternative to the Debt Crisis?

Stephen R. Covey Author, leadership authority, co-founder & vice-chairman of FranklinCovey Co. The rigid partisanship behind last week’s spectacle in Washington came very close to injuring the entire world economy. The deal that was struck will not keep the mountainous … Continue reading

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Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish

By feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, lawmakers have thrown a monstrous monkey wrench into our national finances. By Sam Pizzigati July 24, 2011 Once upon a time in America, back a century ago, … Continue reading

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The Shameful Murder Of Dodd-Frank

Robert Reich Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, ‘Aftershock’ Happy Birthday Dodd Frank, Happy Birthday to you, You’ve lost all your muscle, And your teeth are gone, too. One full year after the financial reform … Continue reading

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Balance the Budget on the Backs of Billionaires!

By DAVID SWANSON July 20, 2011 11 Fat Cats The wealthiest nation on earth is not actually obliged to starve our senior citizens. We don’t need a military 670% more expensive than the next largest one on earth. We don’t … Continue reading

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