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Edward Snowden!
Edward Snowden is an American hero who has significantly raised public awareness about the United States' government's threat to global freedom by using extreme and illegal measures of surveillance.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Man Allegedly Brutally Beaten And Killed By Citibank Debt Collectors
By James Sunshine HUFFINGTON POST In the U.S., failing to pay back your Citibank bills can, at worst, lead to personal bankruptcy and a poor credit rating. In Indonesia, it may get you killed. Jakarta resident Irzen Octa had, according … Continue reading
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Climate Debt Report from the Word Development Movement
Climate loan sharks: how the UK is making developing countries pay twice for climate change In Climate loan sharks, the World Development Movement and the Jubilee Debt Campaign reveal that the UK is pushing $1.1 billion of climate loans, via … Continue reading
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Tell President Obama: Now is the time to stand with the tens of millions of Americans who are struggling to survive economically, not with the millionaires and billionaires who have never had it so good
Bernie Sanders spoke about the inequity and the criticality of the current moment on the floor of the Senate. The following letter to President Obama is posted on his website. Add your signature to Senator Sanders letter Dear Mr. President, … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, CAPITALISM, CIO Heroes, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, GOVERNMENT, GREED, Health, NEWS, RESOURCES, SOLUTIONS, Tax cuts
Tagged austerity, corporate capitalism, corporate money, DEMOCRACY, health, underclass
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Banking Blockade BABY!
WikiLeaks releases advertisement coinciding with the six month unlawful banking blockage against it Censorship, like everything else in the West, has been privatized. For six months now, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank … Continue reading
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Stocks Of Socialized Countries Have Outperformed U.S. Since Reagan Era
Countries with typically high levels of government involvement in the economy, such as Sweden, Denmark and Canada, do not appear to have experienced stifled economic growth relative to countries where government involvement is more limited, like the US … many … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: Labor Regulators To Propose New Rules Quickening Union Elections
By Dave Jamieson HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — In a move that will surely provoke Republicans and business interests, the National Labor Relations Board announced Tuesday morning that it will propose significant new rules for the union election process, streamlining procedures … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: Paul Allen, Ex-Mortgage CEO, Sentenced To Prison For $3B Fraud
By Matthew Barakat HUFFINGTON POST ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The CEO of what had been one of the nation’s largest privately held mortgage lenders was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison for his role in a $3 billion … Continue reading
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GORE BLASTS OBAMA ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Bowing to political resistance from Republicans and some in his own party, Obama abandoned an effort and a campaign pledge to enact legislation that would put the first-ever limit on greenhouse gases. By Dina Capiello HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Former … Continue reading
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The End of Capitalism and the Wellsprings of Radical Hope
By Eugene McCarraher The Nation Why should we want to reinvent capitalism? Rather than reinvent it, we should remind ourselves why capitalism is so pernicious. We could start by stating the obvious (which, apparently, needs restating): the nature and logic … Continue reading
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