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Friday, November 8, 2013

The Real News: Will Mayor-elect Duggan Challenge Detroit's Emergency Manager?

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Labels: Detroil, duggan, emergency manager, The Real News

Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Tea Party and the Suppression of the Left

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Labels: GOP, government shutdown, The Real News, The Tea Party

Friday, June 8, 2012

The Minimum Wage and Making Work Pay

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

NATO Protests In Fortress Chicago

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Labels: chicago, Nato, Police State, The Real News

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Two Billion Dollar Tip of Banking Iceberg

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Labels: Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan, The Real News

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

Unions in America

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Labels: anti-labor, labor, right to work, The Real News, union organizing, unions

The war against unions

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Unions need to organize unemployed workers

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

U.S. Electoral System Wallowing in a Sea of Money, Idiocy, and Corruption

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Labels: citizens united, journalism, primaries, Robert McChesney, The Real News, US Media

Saturday, April 21, 2012

From The Real News Occupy Wall Street meets to discuss how to bring the spring revival

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Labels: May day, Occupy Wall Street, strikes, The Real News

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Austerity and the GOP in Power

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As Greece Unravels, Banks and Markets Pleased with Austerity and Debt Deal

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Labels: austerity, eu, greece, The Real News

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

From Real News The Continued Race To The Bottom

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Monday, August 22, 2011

Another interesting item from the Real News

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Labels: S and P, The Real News

Friday, August 12, 2011

More Interesting Coverage from Real News

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

From Real News: Another interesting analysis of European banking crisis

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From Real New Network:. A warning Shot From S&P don't prosecute us over morgage crisis or we can hurt you

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This is another close friend from the writing world. Nicole is a wonderful writer dealing in the world of young adult fiction. She has a real flair for action and bringing that world to life. This site highly recommends this book.

Confessions of a Union Buster

The Untold History of the United States [Hardcover]

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created ModernAmerica

Lincoln

Be one of the first to own this movie.

Madmen Season Five

Truly one of the best shows on television

Out Across the Nowhere

A close personal friend of mine, a friend of the blog, who has contributed an article on nursing homes and had her fiction here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2011/08/hungry-original-fiction-that-first.html

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Amy Goodman The Silenced Majority

FDR PBS Presidents Series

The story behind the most important president of the twentieth century

The Lincolns: A house Divided

As important as anything done on Lincoln.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System

The Given Day

Great Story of fictionalized Boston during early twentieth century

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins

One of the heartbeats of the New Deal

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps [Paperback]

The man who broke Bush's Florida fiasco in 2000. Anything Greg Palast writes I recommend

Stop The War On Workers

Just When I Make It To The Middle Class They Eliminate It

The War On The Middle Class: The One War We're Winning

Work Hard: Wall Street Needs Your Money

Corporate Plan For America

Abolish Corporate Personhood

Corporate Media: A Weapon of Mass Distraction. -Magnetic Bumper Sticker.

It's Not Pension Reform; It's Pension Default

Bumper Sticker: Fox News When Facts Don't Matter

The Labor Movement: The folks who brought you the weekend. Bumper Sticker.

The Rites Of Spring

This is a great book of the birth of the Twentieth Century that the blog gives two thumbs up.

The Crime Of Our Time

Orwell Rolls In His Grave

A great movie on the modern American media

Inside Job

My Only Sunshine

This is another Wildacre alum and a fine writer.

Intelligence

I've been in class with Susan a few times. She worked for the CIA. This is an intelligent and funny book.

The Iguana Tree

I've known Michele. She is a fine writer. This is an excerpt published here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/03/angel-story-of-workers-from-south-of.html

What's The Matter With Kansas?

"Like a French Revolution in reverse-one in which the sansculottes pour down the streets demanding more power for the aristocracy-the backlash pushes the spectrum of the acceptable to the right, to the right, farther to the right." http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/06/two-quotes-from-thomas-frank-on-this.html

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