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n World’s Richest Country, the Uninsured Wait in Line Overnight for a Chance at Health Care
Stan Brock never expected to see adults and children shivering in line in the middle of the night, hoping to get free medical, dental and vision care in the wealthiest country on earth. Now that he's seen it for years, he's no longer surprised. "It's quit ...[Read more]
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The Assault on Public Education
Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere. California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Times reports on another chapter in the campa ...[Read more]
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Rogers
anything, including spying on people, users, other companies, organizations, implementing blocking, takedowns, infiltrations, hacking - any spectrum of fields which is totally illegal for any normal citizen to undertake. Under the proposed legislation, a ...[Read more]
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The latest attempt by Congress to try to censor and control the Internet is no longer known as SOPA but CISPA: the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The SOPA-like bill would give companies the power to collect information on their subscribers ...[Read more]
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46 Rich persons can buy an election
Taking advantage of relaxed campaign finance laws, a cadre of deep-pocketed donors are spending gobs of money to bankroll super PACs, a phenomenon that is reshaping the modern election cycle. It is a select group. The top 100 individual super PAC donors ...[Read more]
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A look at American Decline by Noam Chomsky
Article by Noam Chomsky looks at the decline of american power, from a historical perspective starting from the end of world war ii and loss of China. Not withholding any inconvenient and uncomfortable historical facts, article recounts the reasons for ...[Read more]
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Russia slams Saudi Arabia, Qatar for funding Syrian rebels
The Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin has slammed Saudi Arabia and Qatar for funding and supplying weapons to armed Syrian opposition groups. ...[Read more]
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Tolerance for Income Gap May Be Ebbing – Economic Scene – New York Times
Americans have never been too worried about the income gap. The gap between the rich and the rest has been much wider in the United States than in other developed nations for decades. Still, polls show we are much less concerned about it than people in th ...[Read more]
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The Rich Get Even Richer – New York Times
NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else ...[Read more]
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The upper class is more Republican
When the ...[Read more]
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Obama administration expands illegal surveillance of Americans
Last Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder enacted guidelines that further expand the US government ...[Read more]
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