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 Robert Reich, Op-Ed: The only difference this time is Washington feels under siege, as if marauding bands are closing in on it. Unlike Europe, America doesn't have feudal traditions that in the last century spun into fascism and communism. Our right and left are much closer to the center than are Europe's. But the American right — whose roots are found in Jeffersonian libertarianism and the Jacksonian alliance of small southern farmers and northern white workers. |
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 Laurie Smolenski, News Report: In May, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that there was "overwhelming evidence" that the practice has led to thousands of illegal stops. She granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices as being unconstitutional and racially discriminatory; the ruling will allow anyone unlawfully stopped and frisked since January 2005 to be a plaintiff in the lawsuit. |
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 Bob Kinzel, News Report: "Amendment number 2310 is about allowing states to honor the wishes of their residents and allowing consumers to know what they are eating," said Sanders. "If this is not a conservative amendment I don't know what is. Americans deserve the right to know what they and their children are eating and that is what this amendment is all about." |
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 Rebecca Leber, News Analysis: Jordan labeled green investments wasted dollars: "The president said that we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And he promised that our country would create millions of green jobs, which would help us compete in the global economy. Over three years into this gamble, available evidence demonstrates these efforts have wasted vast sums of taxpayer money and have failed to achieve the stated goals." |
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 Terrance Heath, Op-Ed: The total amount owed by U.S. students now tops $1 trillion. Student loan defaults have reached their highest level in a decade. Borrow horror stories abound. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau collected thousands of them, and made them available online. Other's have done the math and given up hope of ever paying off their student debt. |
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 Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Video Report: As the presidential race heats up, the focus is increasingly on the nation's slow economic recovery. Last week, President Obama was widely criticized for saying the private sector is "doing fine," while Mitt Romney attacked public sector unions by calling for fewer teachers, firefighters and police officers. We talk to Ralph Nader about the 2012 election and the lessons of last week's victory by Scott Walker, governor of what Nader dubbed "WisKOCHsin." |
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 David Sirota, Op-Ed: Known for ignoring public health concerns and pioneering weapons-grade junk food, this conglomerate's subsidiaries have most recently given us the cheeseburger-stuffed pizza (Pizza Hut), the Dorito-shelled taco (Taco Bell), and the "Double Down" (KFC) — a bacon and cheese sandwich that replaces bread with slabs of deep-fried chicken. So it should come as no surprise that with the three meals hitting their caloric max-out point, Yum! Brands have been leading the effort to add a whole new gorging session to America's daily schedule. |
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 John Feffer, News Report: The global unpopularity of drones stems in large part from their fallibility. The pilots and screeners viewing the footage from the safety of bases in the United States make a lot of mistakes and end up killing a lot of civilians, several hundred in Pakistan alone, including nearly 200 children. So far, U.S. citizens are immune to these effects of drones. |
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 Josh Harkinson, Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 273 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." |
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 Robert S. Becker, Op-Ed: Food fights loom because gay rights and abortion, even "gun control" folly, have lost electoral clout. Gun sales lag only the ultimate rightwing juggernaut: lying by design. Likewise idiotic defiance of climate warming, tempered by fierce storms and sizzling temperatures. Momentarily, even varieties of born-again fundies most resistant to logic have receded, perhaps split over Romney's cultish Mormonism. |
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 Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce, News Report: Those among the nation's 50 million uninsured who manage to get health coverage will also get better medical care than piecemeal or nonexistent version they now receive. We've been talking about quality of care on Facebook with more than 700 users who've joined our discussion group on patient safety. The Supreme Court could uphold the entire health care law or kill it, extinguishing its quality initiatives. |
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 Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: The well to do escape taxation through loopholes, deductions, cash payments and various havens. Italians driving Ferraris to their villas claim near poverty. Newspapers have labeled this behavior "evasion total." Much of the money that government does collect comes from the workers, whose taxes are subtracted from their paychecks — sort of like here. Many Italians now want to stigmatize tax cheating. |
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