Ralph Nader and Ron Paul on The Federal Reserve, Military Spending, WikiLeaks and Health Care

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on Feb 8, 2011

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Blood, death and failure by Mark A. Goldman

by Mark A. Goldman
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January 19, 2011

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It was reported today that President Obama confronted the president of China, Hu Jintao, about China’s human rights record.

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Are You Proud of Your Country? I’m Not by Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
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January 19, 2011

This article has been torturing me for the last five years. I know I should have written it a long time ago, but either the World situation wasn’t right, or I was daunted by the thought of writing this narrative that I knew would be a task that I didn’t really want to start. I take the blame for not writing this sooner, but we are all human and beset by inadequacy.

I have been writing for at least seven years now about our nation. I have alluded to some of the things I’m going to mention in this article. I haven’t been completely remiss, but the situation our nation is faced with deserves more that writing about it’s evils. We must start with how this nation got the way it has become.

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The Colbert Report: Cornel West: I’m a militant for tenderness and radical love

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Cornel West wants the love to flow so that poor people will have the same dignity as investment bankers. (06:54)

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Dems and GOP split over Federal Reserve

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Matt Stoller: Both parties have representatives at odds with leadership over role of the Fed.

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The revolt of the hungry by Elizabeth Schulte

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by Elizabeth Schulte
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January 19, 2011

Capitalism’s warped priorities produce artificial shortages of the basic necessities.

“WE WANT bread and water and no Ben Ali,” read protesters’ handwritten signs as they took to the streets in cities and towns across Tunisia. Some waved loaves of bread, symbols of the hunger that drew people into a struggle that ultimately toppled the corrupt 23-year reign of Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

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