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The Slow Track to High Speed Rail
In April 2009, President Obama stood with Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and announced his grand vision for a national high-speed rail system. Less than 100 days into
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Petition Power: More than 330,000 Reject Holder’s “Too Big to Jail”
This article originally appeared on Campaign for America’s Future. On Tuesday, activists in more than a dozen cities across the country delivered more than 330,000 signatures to U.S. Department of Justice offices calling on
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Monsanto’s U.S. Government Connections and Icons
The Monsanto Corporation is the world’s largest and most powerful corporation in the agricultural and genetically modified foods industries. Monsanto is a multi-billion dollar corporation (reporting nearly $12 billion in sales during 2011), that
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Rally to Free Accused Whistle-blower and WikiLeaks Source
(In an effort to respect the wishes of PFC. Manning, this article refers to “her” rather than “him,” and to “Breanna” Manning rather than “Bradley” Manning. For a thoughtful and thorough consideration of this
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The Dangers of Co-option
This article was originally published over at Occupy.com. Occupy Wall Street hoped for a national resurgence Tuesday with its May Day general strike. Equally important, however, to the movement’s future will be the result
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