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“More than a decade after George W Bush launched it, the “war on terror” was supposed to be winding down. US military occupation of Iraq has ended and Nato is looking for a way out of Afghanistan, even as the carnage continues. But another war – the undeclared drone war that has already killed thousands [...]

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“Americans who went to the polls in 2008 believing that a vote for Barack Obama was a vote for peace, now face the prospect of a presidential election in which both major party candidates will be openly wedded to endless war, cold-blooded “targeted killings,” record military budgets, and the systematic violation of U.S. and international [...]

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Senator Ron Wyden, who is supposed to represent the people of Oregon, but who represents the 1 percent of people who use Wall Street to steal money from the 99 percent, is not happy with the latest income redistribution scam put forth by the Obama administration. That scheme seeks to redistribute more and more income [...]

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Let’s get something straight. President Obama is a tool of Wall Street in its war against the middle class. He is their class warrior. The Obama team is negotiating to ship more jobs overseas, gut US laws and do a lot of other nasty stuff to the middle class. Check out the video below from [...]

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President Obama has said that he supports same sex marriage. It was a simple, calculated political move. The Democratic base had nothing to rejoice about Obama. He’d given the rich everything they could have wanted during his presidency, most of which his working class base had been against. He needed to find something he could [...]

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The one percent has moved to have more middle class income redistributed to themselves via the Trans Pacific Free Redistributing Income Treaty currently being negotiated in Dallas, Texas. Some activists infiltrated an awards ceremony there and the film is below. Two dozen rogue “delegates” disrupted the corporate-sponsored welcome gala for the high-stakes Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) [...]

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The decline of the United States began thirty years ago with President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts for the rich. That extra money from the cuts allowed the rich to purchase legislation that redistributed income from the middle class to themselves, such as free trade agreements which allowed corporations to ship the jobs of working people [...]

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Greece is about the leave the Eurozone

The Greek government is limited in its abilities to use fiscal policy to stimulate its economy because Greece is attached to the euro. Germany governs how and when an expansion of the euro will take place, and the Germans are mostly worried about inflation, which is not a problem that Greece has. Attachment to the [...]

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The one percent richest Americans are drowning in money. Corporate earnings are at a fifty year high. The fortune 500 saw an increase in their 2011 profits 16 percent higher than in 2010. The top one percent took 93 percent of all US income growth for the last two years, leaving the 99 percent with [...]

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At an annual meeting for shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett, the world’s third richest person said, “When we are asking for shared sacrifice from the American people, I would at least make sure that the people with these huge incomes get taxed at a rate that is commensurate with the rate [...]

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