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Wall Street, Obama's Friend, provides huge cash for Obama's re-election, the kind of change Banksters believe in

“The 62 bundlers who work in that [investment] industry have raised at least $9.4 million for Obama and the DNC.

Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood | Truthout

Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many.

How the 99% overcame the Lockhold on Politics by the 1% and Created a Higher Standard of Living for the 99%: The True Story of Sweden and Norway

The Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their current standards of living through nonviolent struggle.

Obama's State of the Union Speech had Troublesome and Chilling Passages for Progressives who must Vote for him if Obama's to Win in November

First, mentioning John Boehner, Obama said he was still open to a grand compromise on Social Security and Medicare. Second, he took a gratuitous swipe at universal single-payer health care.

The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning: Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as Obama's White House Chief of Staff--by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

There’s simply too much truth in the headline "Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff" to smile for long-- it says a lot about how Wall Street and Washington have colluded to create the winner-take-all economy that rewards the very few at the expense of e …

BREAKING: US marine pleads guilty of "negilgence" over Haditha killings of 34 civilians: faces maximum sentence up to three months...

"Staff Sergeant Wuterich accepted responsibility ...

BREAKING: Obama on Brink of a Sweetheart Deal to protect Big Banks—Progressives Furious with Obama Hypocrisy of campaigning for 99% but working for the bankster 1%i

On the eve President Obama’s State of the Union address—in which he plans to pretend to further advance a populist message against big money and income inequality—Obama's massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage cris …

BREAKING: Buffett Blames Congress for Romney's 15% Tax Rate and for the Unfair US Tax Policy--He does Not Blame Romney

Buffett: I do fault a law that allows Romney and me earning enormous sums to pay overall federal taxes at a rate that’s about half what the average person in my office pays. Warren Buffett, the billionaire calling for more taxes on the rich, said Mitt Romney’s U.S.

The Tens of Millions of Dollars of Secret but Legal Corporate Campaign Cash Drowning Out a Democracy that was Supposed to be OF, BY, and FOR THE PEOPLE (real breathing people)

Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. Since then, our democracy has been drowning in a tsunami of corporate special interest money.

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