Tom Dispatch

Who Really Decides an Election?

In post-Citizens United world, whose vote counts: Voters? Or wealthy political donors?

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| Mon Dec. 12, 2011 12:34 PM PST

Our Remote Wars Are Hitting Home

America's wars may be fought in distant countries, but they've weakened our military, drained our treasury, and eroded our freedoms.

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| Thu Dec. 8, 2011 1:01 PM PST

Washington's New Focus: China

From now on, the primary focus of American military strategy will not be counterterrorism, but the containment of China.

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| Tue Dec. 6, 2011 2:20 PM PST

Coming Soon to the Southwest: The Age of Thirst

The western United States could soon face the greatest water crisis in the history of civilization.

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| Mon Dec. 5, 2011 2:36 PM PST

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Counting the Dead on Both Sides of Our War

Soldiers and civilians are still dying in a war opposed by 63 percent of Americans.

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| Thu Dec. 1, 2011 12:34 PM PST

Sacrifice Yourself to the Golden Calf of Capitalism

A modest proposal for Occupy Wall Street.

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| Tue Nov. 29, 2011 1:26 PM PST
Morris Davis

Free Speech: Not for Government Employees

Morris Davis was fired by the Library of Congress not because of his work performance, but because he wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

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| Mon Nov. 28, 2011 1:32 PM PST

Occupy Wall Street: Busted Up but Still Thriving

Why evictions, arrests, and police brutality only add fuel to the OWS fire.

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| Tue Nov. 22, 2011 1:17 PM PST

How the 99 Percent Won Big in Ohio

Although no headlines announced it, Occupy Wall Street notched its first major political victory—for workers' rights—in the key battleground state.

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| Mon Nov. 21, 2011 12:48 PM PST

Keystone XL Delay Shows Climate Change Is a Big Election Issue

If you thought the upcoming election is only about jobs, think again.

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| Tue Nov. 15, 2011 1:22 PM PST

Is America Still the World's Leader?

How failed foreign policies, the Great Recession, the Arab Spring, and a new relationship with Europe have changed America's global role.

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| Mon Nov. 14, 2011 2:44 PM PST

From Tunisia to Oakland, How a New Age of Activism Was Born

On both sides of the world, young activists are reacting to a single stunning development: the extreme and expanding gap between a very wealthy few and the rest of us.

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| Thu Nov. 10, 2011 12:43 PM PST

So Long, American Imperial Dream

Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't turned out the way the Bush administration expected. Is it time to admit defeat?

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| Tue Nov. 8, 2011 12:52 PM PST

The War Against the Poor

The growing masses of America's poor have been largely ignored—until now. Occupy Wall Street is changing that.

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| Mon Nov. 7, 2011 12:21 PM PST
OFAC

One Citizen’s Misadventure in Securityland

In which I get my bank assets frozen by the Treasury Department because they think I'm a terrorist who happens to be spending a year in Norway on a State Department funded Fulbright grant.

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| Thu Nov. 3, 2011 11:33 AM PDT
Capitol for sale

The Dark Money Shakedown

How US campaign finance corruption puts everyday corruption in Africa to shame.

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| Tue Nov. 1, 2011 11:00 AM PDT

Got Student Debt? So Does Occupy Wall Street

As US student debt reaches $1 trillion and the unemployment rate holds steady at nine percent, OWS prepares for a long winter.

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| Mon Oct. 31, 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Time to Occupy Earth

Nature is the 99 percent, too.

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| Thu Oct. 27, 2011 11:09 AM PDT

How the Legal System Favors the 1 Percent

Wall Street tycoons have destroyed the economic security of millions of people around the world—yet they haven't faced the slightest legal repercussions.

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| Tue Oct. 25, 2011 10:29 AM PDT

The National Security Complex: Too Big to Fail?

American taxpayers are shelling out at least $1.2 trillion a year for the Complex. Isn't that worth protesting, too?

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| Thu Oct. 20, 2011 12:26 PM PDT