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Anthony DiMaggio | World in Revolt: The Global Backlash Against Budget Cuts
Anthony DiMaggio, Truthout: "Americans should take a page from activists throughout the rest of the world if they're seriously interested in resisting the massive budget cuts afflicting this country. Effective social change only comes about through mass action - a lesson that has emerged after years of grassroots uprisings in the U.S. and throughout the world.... Americans must realize that the only way forward is through a direct confrontation with political and economic elites. Positive progressive change is never willingly given up by elites - it must be forcibly taken from below. This is the most important lesson to take from the global backlash against neoliberalism."
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House GOP Leadership Colluded With National Review to Blunt Criticism of "Pledge to America"
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress: "The Daily Caller's Jon Ward reports that there is 'pretty widespread' discontent inside the GOP caucus with the recently-released 'Pledge to America,' citing the document's omission of an earmarks ban and its regurgitation of many health reform elements contained in the Affordable Care Act. But, Ward reports, the House GOP leadership was able to restrain much of the internal consternation among its members by circulating a positive editorial written by the National Review."
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Save American Democracy, or What's Left of It
Kevin Zeese, Truthout: "A coalition of organizations has come together to expose groups spending hundreds of millions on the mid-term elections in secret, unlimited donations that avoid campaign finance laws ... As a result, my organization, Prosperity Agenda, has joined American Crossroads Watch, a sister group to Stop The Chamber. Our watchdog campaign has put out rewards of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Karl Rove and Tom Donohue, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce."
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Anthony DiMaggio, Truthout: "Americans should take a page from activists throughout the rest of the world if they're seriously interested in resisting the massive budget cuts afflicting this country. Effective social change only comes about through mass action - a lesson that has emerged after years of grassroots uprisings in the U.S. and throughout the world.... Americans must realize that the only way forward is through a direct confrontation with political and economic elites. Positive progressive change is never willingly given up by elites - it must be forcibly taken from below. This is the most important lesson to take from the global backlash against neoliberalism."
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House GOP Leadership Colluded With National Review to Blunt Criticism of "Pledge to America"
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress: "The Daily Caller's Jon Ward reports that there is 'pretty widespread' discontent inside the GOP caucus with the recently-released 'Pledge to America,' citing the document's omission of an earmarks ban and its regurgitation of many health reform elements contained in the Affordable Care Act. But, Ward reports, the House GOP leadership was able to restrain much of the internal consternation among its members by circulating a positive editorial written by the National Review."
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Save American Democracy, or What's Left of It
Kevin Zeese, Truthout: "A coalition of organizations has come together to expose groups spending hundreds of millions on the mid-term elections in secret, unlimited donations that avoid campaign finance laws ... As a result, my organization, Prosperity Agenda, has joined American Crossroads Watch, a sister group to Stop The Chamber. Our watchdog campaign has put out rewards of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Karl Rove and Tom Donohue, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce."
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