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Daily Kos
Social Security is rapidly become the only, the only lifeline that seniors have to keep their heads above water... Instead of taking on the retirement crisis, instead of strengthening Social ...
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Seattle Voters Elect First Socialist City Councilor In 100 Years
"This is one of wealthiest cities in the wealthiest country in the world. For people to struggle for basic needs is absurd." - Kshama Sawant Seattle: the most progressive city in America just got e...
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China officially abandons its pursuit of "growth at all costs"
How did China grow its GPD by 10 percent every year for more than three decades, from a virtual standing start, rising to become the world's second-largest economy? Through a simple, horrendous ...
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Bayer is suing a whole continent for saving the bees?
And it says a ban on its bee-killing pesticides is "disproportionate"?!?
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Stop CTEA v.2 | Rootstrikers
The question now is whether Congress will extend the copyright term for existing copyrights again. They've already done it 11 times in the last 50 years. It's time we say: NEVER AGAIN. Please sign ...
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We Need Citizen-Funded Elections | Rootstrikers
A bill has already been introduced to Congress that would do just that, and it needs your support. The Grassroots Democracy Act includes a matching fund provision, but adds (1) tax credits for small
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Europe's lost generation
French President Francois Hollande has warned that the "future of a generation is at stake" as European leaders face up to the crisis of youth unemployment. There is no single magic solution to the
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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
He started by telling them that there were kids in other parts of the world who could memorize pi to hundreds of decimal points. They could write symphonies and build robots and airplanes. Most ...
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Switzerland's Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive
This fall, a truck dumped eight million coins outside the Parliament building in Bern, one for every Swiss citizen. It was a publicity stunt for advocates of an audacious social policy that just ...
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Number of Mexicans crossing US border lowest in decades
Even as immigration remains a dominant political issue in Washington, particularly the issue of providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the amount of Mexicans crossing the US
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Capitalism and Unemployment
What if capitalists were not allowed to layoff whom they choose, but all workers were required to cut their hours for the benefit of the unemployed and underemployed, suggests economist Richard Wolff.
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"Christian" Speaker Gives Sexist Speech At A Public School, Students Call Him
A Christian motivational speaker who has traveled the south giving thousands of talks to kids about how to be "dateable" has finally met his match. At a school in Richardson, Texas, Justin Lookadoo...
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Everyone In America Is Even More Broke Than You Think
The massive and growing gulf between rich and poor is one of the direst challenges facing the U.S. economy. Highlighting this gap, more than half of U.S. wage earners made less than $30,000 last ...
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How economic growth has become anti-life
Limitless growth is the fantasy of economists, businesses and politicians. It is seen as a measure of progress. As a result, gross domestic product (GDP), which is supposed to measure the wealth of
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'Killer robots' ban must be part of Geneva talks, says campaign group
An international coalition of disarmament and human rights groups has said that UN-sponsored talks in Geneva this week must seize the opportunity to ban the development of fully autonomous weapons ...
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We're About to Lose Net Neutrality - And the Internet as We Know It
The implications of such a decision would be profound. Web and mobile companies will live or die not on the merits of their technology and design, but on the deals they can strike with AT&T ...
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Comedian Russell Brand's Surprisingly Good Essay on the Possibilities of a
Note: The following essay by U.S. resident UK comedian Russell Brand has caught a lot of attention on both sides of the Atlantic. It's worth reading for his own personal insights and the growing ...
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How Online Mapmakers Are Helping the Red Cross Save Lives in the Philippines
It will be months before we know the true damage brought about by super typhoon Haiyan. The largest death tolls now associated with the storm are only estimates. Aid workers from across the world ...
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Sweden Is Closing Prisons As It Runs Out Of Inmates
In the United States, going to prison is punishment, with law enforcement officials like Sheriff Joe Arpaio determined to make prison as unpleasant as legally possible for offenders as a deterrent ...
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Socialist Candidate Takes Lead in Seattle Race
Voters in left-leaning Seattle, where police recently handed out snacks at a large marijuana festival and politicians often try to out-liberal each other, are close to electing a Socialist candidate
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The New Earth Project: blueprint for a new civilisation
In my review of the 2013 GlobalBEM Conference I suggested that we are heading towards a new civilisation, instead of just developing a 'better' world or a 'better' society. The morning after the cl...
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The Revolution of the Mind is Underway
Chris Hedges has an important essay in Truthdig this week, Our Invisible Revolution. Essentially he describes a revolution of the mind in which people's consciousness are raised as they become aware
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City Council Strips Mayor of Key Powers, Protesters Rally to "Save Toronto"
Rob Ford becomes a mayor "in name only" as latest wave of allegations bring an admission of drunk driving and use of sexually explicit language
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Forest change mapped by Google Earth
A new high-resolution global map of forest loss and gain has been created with the help of Google Earth. The interactive online tool is publicly available and zooms in to a remarkably high level of