Nurses Kick Off First Official NATO Protest | NBC Chicago

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Lawyers for NATO protesters say they're falsely accused of planning to use Molotov cocktails - chicagotribune.com

no charges?...

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ALEC Anti-Union Push Includes Key Players From Michigan, Arizona Think Tanks | NationofChange

The American Legislative Exchange Council, which backs free-market legislation in the states, has been controversial in part because its membership includes major corporations as well as state legislators. Largely unnoticed has been the influence wielded by a third group of ALE …

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Preying on the Poor

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But as Business Week helpfully …

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Inequality or Sustainability? Why Madison Needs Marx | NationofChange

Marx famously said that the bourgeoisie unwittingly produces its own gravediggers. Marx was convinced that capitalism inexorably gives rise to an elite social class whose members create an economy that contains the seeds of its own destruction. The prime movers in Marx's theory …

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Summoned Before Senate Committee

The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday summoned JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to testify under oath about the huge losses his company suffered on an investment strategy that sank JPMorgan’s share price, heightened concerns about the efficacy of new regulations and tarnis …

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Plaintiff in NDAA case: U.S. has "gone insane" in its war on terror

Journalist Tangerine Bolen, who along with other activists and writers filed suit over an indefinite detention law, said Thursday that the citizens United States had become indifferent about their rights. “This panoply of laws and circumstances over the last ten years ha …

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BREAKING: Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking

Fracking exposes citizens to a wild mix of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. So when patients show up at their doctors' offices, the doctors need to figure out which chemicals are the likely culprits. The doctors of sick patients can, with great effort, access the names of …

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Five myths about independent voters and the corresponding "facts"- The Washington Post

Myth: 1. Independent voters aren’t really independent. Fact: About half are, swinging from party to party. Myth: 2. Independent voters are less engaged.

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