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Censorship: Toys in the Nation’s Attic
Michael Winship By Michael Winship Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS In the snows of yesteryear, far away from Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or START treaties or the War on Christmas, I see the movie...
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Court and Chevron’s “Crude” Attacks Continue
Michael Winship By Michael Winship Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS Joe Berlinger’s back is against the wall. Last week the independent filmmaker, already facing crushing debt from legal...
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Hundreds gathered at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia to tell lawmakers to stop the budget cuts that are hurting the middle class. And, as they chanted, “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Corporate Loopholes...
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Laws Matter, Unless You Can Nullify Them
By Stan Sorscher Labor Representative, Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) Recently, an investigation by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that...
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Bankers Plan “Surgical” Strike Against Their “Enemies”
By Jim Hightower Author, Commentator, America’s Number One Populist An activist group has declared: We’re sick and tired of being stomped on by the Powers That Be in Washington, and by gollies, we’re...
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The “Younger” Games: Phony Age War Strikes Again … and Again … and Again
By Richard (RJ) Eskow Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future Millions of people have read the Hunger Games stories about a depraved future society where young people are forced to fight each...
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Who’s Behind the “Fix the Debt”?
By Jim Hightower Author, Commentator, America’s Number One Populist Look out – The “fixers” are coming. Top corporate chieftains and Wall Street gamblers want to tell Washington how to fix our national...
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Sequestering Hope: Washington’s Mad Hatter Budget Debate
Robert Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America's Future Moderation in a madhouse is a dubious virtue. A balanced dose of poison may mask, but doesn’t stop the damage. Yet, this is what President...
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Watergate’s Lessons, Washed Away
By Michael Winship Senior Writer of Moyers & Company At moments, “The Lessons of Watergate” conference, held a couple of weeks ago in Washington, D.C. by the citizen’s lobby Common Cause, was a...
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Political Corruption and the “Free Trade” Racket
By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Author In polite circles in the United States’ support for free trade is a bit like proper bathing habits. It is taken for granted....
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The Mysterious World of DC Centrism vs. a Platform That Real Voters Would Like
Mike Lux Co-founder and CEO, Progressive Strategies I have been bemused for many years by the peculiar mindset represented by D.C.-centrism. I have written about it a number of times over the years, in...
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Does the Treasury Secretary Have to Be a Lobbyist for Wall Street in Europe?
By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, AuthorIt’s not news that the Wall Street banks have enormous influence over policy in Washington. After all, most of the big banks...
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While Washington Sleeps, A Nation Crumbles
By Richard (RJ) Eskow Writer; Host, "The Breakdown;" Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's FutureThere’s an old saying: When one door closes, another opens. Whoever said that never worked in...
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Dr. King, Full Employment, and Some Provocative Wage Trends
By Jared Bernstein Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities There’s a ton of interesting analysis out in recent days on the quite explicit though often under-appreciated economic thrust of...
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Another View Of The Capitol, Where Jobs Are Top Priority
By Isaiah J. Poole Executive editor of the blog site OurFuture.org As Washington today digests the significance of yet another ho-hum jobs report, “official” Washington would do well to take a short...
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