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Bernie, Hillary, and body language

July 15, 2016 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

Yesterday, Bernie endorsed Hillary. Body language experts across the Web came to the same conclusion: They don’t like each other. They saw Hillary as

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Bernie Sanders’ accomplishments

March 4, 2016 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders 50 comments

  This list of Bernie Sanders’ accomplishments is for those who think Bernie Sanders has achieved “nothing” in his time in office, or think he’s

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Noam Chomsky: On capitalism and why electing Bernie isn’t enough

October 25, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Activism, Banks, Climate Change, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Environment, Hillary Clinton, Obama Leave a comment

    In a recent interview in Jacobin, linguist, philosopher, and political activist Noam Chomsky gave an interesting answer to a question about the American capitalist system. He basically said

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Myths and lies about Greece

July 14, 2015 Madonna Gauding Banks, Financial reform, Foreign Policy, International, Justice One comment

  From Truth and Satire: Every single mainstream media has the following narrative for the economic crisis in Greece: the government spent too much

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Joe Stiglitz wants to rewrite the rules of the American economy

May 18, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Economy, Financial reform, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

The time is ripe for genuine progressive ideas to take hold because, for once, they have a chance to resonate with people across the political spectrum. Bernie Sanders and Joe Stiglitz, together, offer real solutions to an economy, and a country, gone off the rails.

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Hillary Clinton another Wall Street candidate

Hillary Clinton’s pretend populism

April 15, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton One comment

  I watched Hillary’s slick ad announcing her 2016 presidential campaign. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it here. Left writer and thinker

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Midterms: Democratic Party didn’t give people a reason to vote

November 12, 2014 Madonna Gauding Campaigns, Democrats, Politics, Prison, Privatization, Republicans, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

It’s absolutely true that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans obstructed every Democratic initiative. On the other hand, Democrats didn’t give people a reason to

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Elizabeth Warren: The post office could become a bank, replace payday lenders

February 14, 2014 Madonna Gauding Banks, Corporations, Corruption, Government, Obama, Privatization Leave a comment

Senator Elizabeth Warren has another brilliant and truly progressive proposal. It would help the more than 68 million Americans (25% of all households) who

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Should we freak out about population growth?

February 6, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Environment, Population growth Leave a comment

While browsing YouTube, I came across this video by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki. He explains the concept of exponential growth and how it applies

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Cutting cable and MSNBC along with it

January 17, 2014 Madonna Gauding ACA/Obamacare, Banks, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Economy, Government, Health care, Republicans Leave a comment

I’m not alone in being burned out on MSNBC.  The complaints vary from “there’s too much opinion and not enough news,” to “I’m tired

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