NationofChange Turns One! With a tiny staff and a shoestring budget we have managed to raise over $50,000 for progressive causes in this last year alone. Our little website has grown into a substantial player in this fight and we're just getting started.
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 Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed: "Joe Sacco and I, one afternoon when we were working in southern West Virginia on our book 'Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,' parked our car on the side of a road. We walked with Kenny Kinginto the woods covering the slopes of Blair Mountain. King is leading an effort to halt companies from extracting coal by blasting apart the mountain, the site in the early 1920s of the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War." |
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 Lee Woodsmall, News Analysis: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. So goes the logic of Jonathan Soros, the son of billionaire liberal donor George Soros, who haslaunched his own super PAC aimed at diminishing the influence that groups like his have on politics: 'We openly acknowledge the irony of being a super PAC trying to address money in politics,' Soros said. "But our goal is to eventually decrease the influence of this kind of group… We don't see any other path to real legislative change." |
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 R. Jeffrey Smith, News Report: "Republicans and Democrats in Washington may disagree about cutting the defense budget, but their constituents are generally in accord that it should shrink next year by a fifth to a sixth of its present size, according to a public opinion survey by the Program for Public Consultation, the Center for Public Integrity and the Stimson Center, a nonprofit think-tank." |
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 Dean Baker, Op-Ed: "Ever since the housing bubble collapsed, the Federal government has refused to take major initiatives to help underwater homeowners. As a result, we are likely to see close to 1 million foreclosures both this year and next, with the numbers only gradually slipping back to normal levels by the end of the decade. The inaction cannot be attributed to a lack of opportunity." |
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 Catherine Wilson, News Analysis: "Coastal fisheries in Papua New Guinea, used primarily by local subsistence fisher folk, will face increasing pressure from climate change, compounding the twin problems of population growth and overfishing. Regional organisations like the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), along with local NGOs, are pushing for the development of Marine Protected Areas to safeguard the future of marine ecosystems and livelihoods." |
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 Adam S. Hersh and Cameron DeHart, News Analysis: "The Federal Reserve, America's central bank, has two jobs: make sure that inflation stays low, and make sure that employment stays high. Since the crisis began, the Fed has taken some out-of-the-ordinary measures to help boost employment, but can it do more? The answer is undoubtedly yes. And members should ask Bernanke why he and the Fed are not taking these or other actions to do its job consist with the severity of America's unemployment woes." |
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 Amy Goodman, Video Interview: "The Food and Drug Administration has been found to have launched a massive surveillance campaign targeting its own scientists for writing letters to journalists, members of Congress and President Obama. The scientists were expressing their concern over the FDA's approval of medical imaging devices for colonoscopies and mammograms that could endanger patients with high levels of radiation." |
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![]( "The Slick") Richard (RJ) Eskow, Op-Ed: "I'm sure that some decent people are attracted to No Labels without realizing that a label is precisely what's needed. Labeling would tell them that the group was designed and created by and for political backs from both parties, who scrupulously hide their funding sources but are associated with people like anti-Social Security billionaire Pete Peterson." |
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 Lowell Bergman, Matt Isaacs and Stephen Engelberg, News Analysis: "A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate spit of land in Macau and imagined a glittering strip of casinos, hotels and malls. Now, some of the methods Adelson used in Macau to save his company and help build a personal fortune estimated at $25 billion have come under expanding scrutiny by federal and Nevada investigators." |
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 Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 303 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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 Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "Nowadays, few politicians will stray from party orthodoxy without also taking unfair whacks at the opposition. Sen. Tom Coburn, Republican from Oklahoma, is braver and more principled than most. But even he felt obliged to take partisan cover in his most recent blast at activist Grover Norquist, enforcer of the absurd pledge never to let anyone's taxes rise ever." |
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 Sven Eberlein, News Analysis: "The yearning to live in community is not a new one. Human beings evolved sharing common space, resources, and neighborly support, not only for physical survival but also for a sense of belonging and togetherness. But modern society values autonomy, often at the cost of the social connection offered by traditional communities. Cohousing, an idea that originated in Denmark in the 1960s, has been increasingly filling the gap. Each household in cohousing has an individual residence but takes part in the design process, consensus-based decision-making, shared meals, and socializing." |
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