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  • Cover Story: A Plan From Main Street

    Feb 15, 2013

    by Ellen Brown  Besides the imploding banking system, a second tower is now poised to fall. The U.S. federal debt is approaching the point at which just the interest on it will be more than the taxpa...

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  • Dangerous Unselfishness

    Feb 15, 2013

    For decades, small, locally-owned businesses have not only served as an economic engine for the entire country, producing most of its jobs, they produced together sufficient economic power to provide ...

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  • Get Involved: Support the “Do The Math” Tour

    Nov 27, 2012

    As the East Coast continues to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, Bill McKibben and the global climate campaign www.350.org are kicking off a 21-city nationwide Do the Math tour that wi...

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  • The American Dream in 2013

    Nov 27, 2012

    by Peter C. Whybrow, MD “It’s called the American Dream,” George Carlin lamented shortly before his death, “because you have to be asleep to believe it.” Too bad for the rest of us that Geor...

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  • The Indoctrination of Missile Launch Officers

    Sep 02, 2012

    In 1995 Russia mistook a US-launched weather rocket as an incoming nuclear missile. Although the US had notified the Russian Embassy of the launch, the news did not reach Russian missile defense offic...

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  • Were You There?

    May 29, 2012

    by Chris Hedges Love is in fact the most boisterous element in our hearts, the most influential and unforgettable.  In this passage, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and son of a Pr...

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  • The Story of Citizens United

    Mar 29, 2012

    Why Democracy Only Works When People Are in Charge by Annie Leonard Aren’t you tired of this stuff? Why is it that every election season, it becomes impossible to hear the facts over all the mislead...

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