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The Blood Is On Our Hands

  I know the subject heading is very tough--but I want us to understand that the deaths of the peace activists in the flotilla are the responsibility of the U.S. Here are my thoughts very quickly [also...

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Charles Rangel, McCarthyism on Gaza Flotilla Is Vile

  While I am running against Charles Rangel in the Democratic primary in the 15th Congressional District, I have also been clear that I will praise him for the good work he has done and the positions...

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BREAKING-Goldman Sachs Gets Away With Slap On Wrist

  If I was Lloyd Blankfein and you told me that I could pockets hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation, play a key role in a scam that cost millions of people their jobs, sent the economy into...

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Wall Street: Goldman Sachs and Business As Usual

  As the dust has settled a bit from last week's slap-on-the-wrist to Goldman Sachs, it's worth making this point again: nothing much has changed.  After the first few hours of the news that Goldman...

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Take The Pledge: Defend Social Security

  These days, not a day goes by when some politician, Democratic or Republican, or pundit demands that we cut Social Security. Well, my view is this: we have a moral bond to defend Social Security and...

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Charles Rangel, Step Aside For The Good of The Party

  Charles Rangel has contributed in the past to our nation, our state, the people of the 15th Congressional District and to the Democratic Party. For that reason, in light of the very serious findings...

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Charles Rangel Petition: Do Not Give Us Speaker Boehner

  This morning, I was out campaigning early at a subway stop in the 15th Congressional District as part of my effort to win the Democratic primary for the seat currently held by Charles Rangel. Beyond...

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10,000 Voices For Social Security: Help Us Get There

  Last week, I helped launched a petitioncalling on candidates to commit that, if elected, they would never vote to cut Social Security, or demand that people stay at work additional years before they...

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Billionaire Give-Away: The Fog of Robbery

  Count me in the group, perhaps small, that is unimpressed with the pledge by a group of billionaires to give away large parts of their fortune. Not because I oppose the idea of philanthropy. Rather,...

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America Today: An Unemployed Mother Kills Her Kids

  Every single day that I campaign, someone comes up to me in the streets and says, "can you get me a job?". On one day this past weekend, I got literally a couple of dozen of those questions. The...

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U.S. Wages As Cheap As India

  Along the road of the past 30 years, productivity has been soaring (and technology has been a minor part of that) while wages have been flat--thanks to de-unionization and a simple corporate decision...

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A Worldwide Revolt Against Poverty Wages

  Yesterday, I wrote about how the decline of U.S. wages has made workers here cheaper to hire than workers in India, at least in the call center industry. Today, the news hails from Asia where workers...

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