- For weeks, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) has been turning up the h...
- Tuesday afternoon marked the beginning of the general floor debate for the ...
- Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headqu...
- Millions of Americans are deep in medical debt. Unfortunately, the Affordab...
- Immigrants don’t just pick our fruit, deliver our take-out food and desig...
- WASHINGTON -- Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on ...
- Activists held a series of demonstrations across the country today to call ...
- A renewed debate of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is lon...
- Two days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in...
- The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the...
- Next week, the U.S. House will take up the federal farm bill, which include...
- By a 305-121 margin, the House of Representatives voted to accelerate US tr...
- Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the foll...
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- WASHINGTON — Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ...
- Unreported in the mainstream press is the dramatic long-term hunger strike ...
- WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a slate of bills Wed...
- The spate of alarming incidents in recent months underscoring the depth of ...
- New York stood for equality by approving same-sex marriage two years ago. I...
- During the Bush II Era, excessive deficit spending was no big deal for Repu...
- Washington’s attack on the poor continues as the Senate votes for big cut...
- WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsui...
- In this new era of austerity, it was disappointing to learn that Congress i...
- One in three Americans are now poor, sapping our nation's social, economic,...
- The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's hi...
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Obama Heckled During Speech On Drones, Gitmo (VIDEO)
Written by Paige Lavender | Huffington Post
President Barack Obama was heckled during a speech at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
IMF Sounds Warning on U.K. Austerity
Written by Ainsley Thomson and Paul Hannon | Wall Street Journal
LONDON—The International Monetary Fund urged the U.K. government to counter the effects of its austerity program by raising spending on infrastructure projects to avoid long-term damage to the nation's growth prospects.
Congresswoman Lee Introduces “No More Ghost Money Act”
Written by Rep. Barbara Lee | Press Release
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced the No More Ghost Money Act of 2013. The bill would prohibit illegal payments to foreign officials and would require a report to Congress on payments made by the CIA to employees, officers, and elected officials to foreign entities.
Reject pipeline's jobs pipe dreams
Written by Rep John Conyers and Rev. Lennox Yearwood \ Politico
President Barack Obama knows the dangers of not going far enough or fast enough to stop the climate crisis. History will celebrate his decision to lead us toward a clean energy economy that solves climate change and creates long-term, sustainable jobs for Americans.
An Answer to Unemployment: A Jobs-for-All Bill | Commentary
Written by By Rep. John Conyers Jr. and Philip L. Harvey | Roll Call
Act would boost employment now for the many who need it, eliminate residual joblessness even in times of prosperity
It has been five years since the financial crisis struck, and progress in putting the unemployed back to work still lags, with no end in sight.
How America Became a Third World Country
Written by Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford | The Nation
The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace.
Child poverty is the real scandal
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson | Chicago Sun Times
Washington is descending into another silly season. Let’s end this diversion of dust and smoke as partisans hype mock “scandals” for political profit.
Inoculating Our Children Against Fear and Hatred
Written by Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence | RSN
"Ewww. Don't do it, Patrick. Don't do it. Dogs pee here."
A woman was giving my husband a hard time because our 10-month-old son had dropped his banana on the ground. Patrick picked it up, licked it and was about to hand it back to our boy. Seamus grabbed for it eagerly and scarfed it down. A minute or two later, he was grunting for more.
Pentagon officials ask Congress to shift $9.6B
Written by Zack Colman | The Hill
The Pentagon wants Congress to shift $9.6 billion of this year’s Defense Department budget toward expenses for the Afghanistan war, transportation and other items.
Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives
Written by Phyllis Bennis | Open Democracy
What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and social transformation, and real regime change under way is led by people themselves. US military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction.
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