Hightower Lowdown
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The top four victories handed to corporate America by today's Supreme Court--so far
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A new Wall Street sin tax could raise $100B a year to reinvest in Main Street America
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Postcards from the frontroads and backroads of the 2010 election campaigns
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Name those nuts!
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THE FRAUD OF AFGHAN "DEMOCRACY"
"What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan," you ask? According to Washington's war hawks, we're there to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. Key to this strategy, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Corporate kings grab our tax subsidies but create no new jobs. Obama fiddles.
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Big biz wants to own the information superhighway while We the People bump along the backroads
four telephone and cable giants: AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon. This cabal of special interests controls 94 percent of the national ISP market, and the monopolistic ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
To put the progress back in "progressive," we need a real populist movement
As I've rambled through life, I've observed that the true political spectrum in our society does not range from right to left, but from top to bottom. This is how America's ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
300 ex-Congress critters are among the hired guns who kill progressive reforms
... to be a self-governing people -- we have to cure this money sickness that is within us. One preventive step is to adopt the clean-elections model that such states as ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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