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While the public polls show a public disgusted with the two party duopoly on power and demanding change, the same figures are emerging as the choices for the next president. The most obvious is Hil...

Guy Standing, honorary co-president of BIEN and Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, will be taking part in a debate on basic

Positive Money is a movement to democratise money and banking so that it works for society and not against it. Our current financial system has left us with the highest personal debt in history ...

Did you know that it was the Koch Brothers who planned the government shutdown, only two weeks after President Obama's reelection? First, this political commentator reads the list of every ...

Switzerland has a very direct style of democracy. For example, changes to the constitution, or "popular initiatives," can be proposed by members of the public and are voted on if more than 100,000 ...

Chomsky, "Canadian mining operations are just destroying large parts of the world." He said that "Canada is trying to take the lead in destroying the possibility of decent survival: that's what it ...

This, apparently. After several months of debate, officials in Kazakhstan's capital city of Astana have chosen a final design for the massive site that will host the World EXPO 2017. The sprawling ...

The food stamp glitch that allowed shoppers in a couple of Louisiana Walmart stores to shop with no limits on their EBT food stamp cards, falls back on the shoppers today. The shoppers who took ...

The U.S. economy added 204,000 jobs in October, which was much stronger than the 120,000 expected. The September number was revised up to 163,000 from an earlier estimate of 148,000. The labor force

Three tech geeks in their 20's - George Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang, and Michael Wasser - didn't like witnessing the abysmal rollout of the epic fail of a website that is Healthcare.gov, so they did