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By Robert Scheer — Tumblr shunned advertising and earned the trust of its users, but Yahoo undoubtedly has other plans.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of tax forms.
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By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
The IRS division responsible for flagging tea party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.
Posted on May 17, 2013
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on May 11, 2013
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WHO U.S. Mission/Eric Bridiers
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This is incredibly sad, outrageous or corrupt, depending on where you sit, but it is being reported that Kathleen Sebelius has been asking health insurers to help fund the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on May 8, 2013
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on May 8, 2013
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Shutterstock illustration of American candle burning.
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By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —
Among other effects, cancer clinics in March began turning away thousands of Medicare patients being treated with expensive chemotherapy drugs, which the clinics say they can no longer afford.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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The wealthy failed GOP presidential candidate doesn’t want them worrying about getting a job and making money, because who needs those things to support a family?
Posted on May 5, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama had the opportunity this week to make an irresponsible Congress face the consequences of its own dumb actions. For reasons I cannot fathom, he took a pass.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of a bill fragment with blood spots.
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The already tepid reforms enacted by Dodd-Frank are falling prey to business leaders, Republican lawmakers and the son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — Times are tough. Do the numbers: Chief executive officers of the country’s biggest companies experienced pay increases of a minuscule 15 percent in 2012, compared with the 28 percent their pay rose in 2011.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The Financial Transaction Tax, or Robin Hood Tax, would generate more than $300 billion a year in revenue, thereby doing away with the need for the sequester currently forcing across-the-board budget cuts.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of robbery.
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By Joe Conason — The gun lobby and its legislative servants are “soft on crime”—although they routinely pretend to be tough on criminals.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of the euro.
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By William Pfaff — A new “Alternative for Germany” political movement has erupted as a backlash against the euro, and against Germany’s fellow members of the EU.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Exploitation of bus drivers is just one part of the corporate disemboweling of the U.S. public transportation system. As the destruction of city and state bus and subway services enters its final phase, their unions have either disappeared or lost clout.
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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Danny Birchall (CC-BY)
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By Joe Conason — Amid all the suffocating claptrap celebrating Margaret Thatcher in the media, only the British themselves seem able to provide a refreshing hit of brisk reality.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: How the media cover—and promote—war, Robert Scheer defends the messenger, AP disappears ‘illegal’ immigrants, and America’s office slaves, otherwise known as interns, rise up.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: How the media cover—and promote—war, Robert Scheer defends the messenger, AP disappears “illegal” immigrants, and America’s office slaves, otherwise known as interns, rise up.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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© Ahmed Amir (CC BY 2.0)
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A cache of 2.5 million secret files offers the chance to peek behind the curtain of the world’s offshore money market, detailing the involvement of more than 120,000 companies and trusts doing business with politicians, con men and scores of the mega-rich.
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — For all of the strident attacks on Stockman’s column, I have yet to read a serious critique of his most brazen claim.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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Ryan M. (CC-BY-SA)
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By Paul Cummins and Ray Reisler —
If income divide is at the root of current public education deficits, that chasm must be narrowed by reducing the factors that perpetuate poverty.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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Rand Paul (CC-BY-SA)
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Spiritual money launderer Bob Harris gave his salary to the developing world, Hugo Chavez died, and banks were “too big to jail.” Plus: Medea Benjamin on drones, and cybersecurity.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Spiritual money launderer Bob Harris gave his salary to the developing world, Hugo Chavez died, and banks were “too big to jail.” Plus: Medea Benjamin on drones, and cybersecurity.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Authorities in Florida and five other states carried out a massive raid on a politically well-connected charity that has been called a fraud by the Internal Revenue Service.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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AP/Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — The U.S. government exists primarily to make the world safe for multinational corporations, but those firms feel no obligation to pay for that protection in return.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By David Sirota — Why are ideas widely supported in most of the country so often portrayed as controversial, polarizing and divisive once they are taken up by legislatures?
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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By Joe Conason — The difference between a natural disaster and a disaster caused by politicians is that the latter will almost always hit the poor and the obscure most heavily.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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The Walton family, better known as the Walmart heirs, have invested millions in trying to privatize Los Angeles public schools; perhaps the true culprit of the sequester is President Obama; meanwhile, the former pope’s resignation can be seen as a sound surrender rather than a cowardly abdication. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By William Pfaff — Switzerland just had a referendum in which it voted to give company and bank shareholders veto rights over the salaries, bonuses and overall compensation packages of senior executives and board directors.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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AP/Osamu Honda
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By Robert Scheer — Where is the Occupy movement now that the depravity of the super rich is on full display?
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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Flickr/Thomas Hawk
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Meet the major banks’ newest partner: payday lenders, the owners of those check cashing stores that offer short-term loans with interest rates that sometimes exceed 500 percent.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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