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California Declares Fiscal Emergency (Reuters)
Jan. 21, 2011 (Reuters) -- Jerry Brown, California’s governor, declared a state of fiscal emergency on Thursday for the government of the most populous US state to press lawmakers to tackle ...
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Court Rules U.S. Government Can Continue To Suppress Detainee Statements Describing Torture And Abuse (ACLU)
Transcripts Of Combatant Status Review Trials Essential To Accountability For Torture, Says ACLU Jan. 18, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (ACLU) -- A federal appeals court today ruled that the government can ...
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How Can the Richest 1 Percent Be Winning This Brutal Class War Against 99% of Us? (Larry Beinhart)
Jan. 21, 2011 (AlterNet) -- Who are they? The richest 1 percent. And maybe the next 9 percent. Who are we? All the rest. Which poses an interesting question. How has a tiny fraction of the ...
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The Financial Elite In America: Same As Dictators Elsewhere (Sam Hamod)
Tunisia And US Smugness Jan. 21, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- While pointing to Tunisia, America, under the direction of Obama and his messenger, Hillary Clinton, are telling the Arab world ...
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US Wars to Continue Until its Economy Busts (Chris Hedges)
Jan. 21, 2011 (Press TV) -- American wars will continue until the country's giant corporations, which pay the politicians in Washington's corridors of power, become financially unsustainable, says ...
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Peace in the Holy Land? Why We Fail (Lawrence Davidson)
Jan. 21, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- According to Laura Rozen, a journalist specializing in foreign policy matters and writing in Politico (13 January 2011), the Obama administration is ...
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Vermont Is Gearing Up to Strike a Major Blow to Corporate Personhood, Ban It Statewide (Christopher Ketcham)
Jan. 23, 2011 (AlterNet) -- A year ago today, the Supreme Court issued its bizarre Citizens United decision, allowing unlimited corporate spending in elections as a form of “free speech” for the ...
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Republicans Give Government Back to Their Corporate Paymasters (Jim Hightower)
Jan. 19, 2011 (Creators.com) -- Early this month, when John Boehner was sworn in as the new speaker of the House of Representatives, he tipped his hat to the teabag activists across the country who ...
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Lying, Cheating and Stealing to Gut Social Security (Dean Baker)
Making Social Security More Progressive: The Games They Play in Washington Jan. 19, 2011 (Huffington Post) -- The insiders in Washington really really want to cut Social Security, and they are ...
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Actually, The Retirement Age is Too High (James K. Galbraith)
Jan. 19, 2011 (Foreign Policy) -- The most dangerous conventional wisdom in the world today is the idea that with an older population, people must work longer and retire with less. This idea is ...
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States Warned of $2 Trillion Pensions Shortfall (Nicole Bullock)
Jan. 18, 2011 (Financial Times) -- US public pensions face a shortfall of $2,500 billion that will force state and local governments to sell assets and make deep cuts to services, according to the ...
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