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OccupyTelecom, Occupy the FCC: How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Future

Posted on Nov 17, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The telecom trust’s use of the FCC to raise your rates is a direct example of how corporate greed impacts each of us.

Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today's Mass Nonviolent Protests?

Posted on Jul 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet

On July 28, 1932, World War I veterans marched on Washington to demand their service bonus. Today, in the face of austerity, we see very little protest like that march.

Shills R Us: Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile

Posted on Jun 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet

A growing number of nonprofits are recipients of AT&T grants; are they violating their IRS nonprofit status by shilling for the company's interests?

The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam: How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System

Posted on Jun 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Telecom giants Verizon and AT&T have gamed the system, using regulations designed to foster competition to snatch up ever more of the wireless spectrum.

The Big Squeeze: How Americans Are Being Crushed by Financial Insecurity and Doubt

Posted on May 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Americans are living lives of lowered expectation and intensified financial uncertainty.

It's Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms

Posted on May 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Today's telecoms provide overpriced and inferior service, and are systematically overcharging the hapless American consumer.

Salons: A New Intellectual Culture is Taking Shape Throughout the Country

Posted on May 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Amidst the long, drawn-out recovery from the Great Recession, an unprecedented flowering of intellectual life is underway.

The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don't Know About

Posted on Apr 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The documentary production company Citizens United has dedicated itself to furthering the interests of the far right and the super-rich.

Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism

Posted on Apr 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Why, with all the deaths, beatings and suffering that prostitutes endure under "free market" conditions, is it not a regulated enterprise?

How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers

Posted on Mar 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Raiding 911 funds is an easy way for politicians to scoop up loose cash -- far easier than taxing the rich.

How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?

Posted on Mar 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that allows Big Pharma to advertise directly to consumers. How did we get here?

Notorious Pro-Corporate Group ALEC's Hidden Role in Stoking Class War in Wisconsin and the Rest of America

Posted on Feb 22, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The American Legislative Executive Council works behind the scenes, using state-legislative stooges to implement the agenda of giant corporations and the super-rich.

The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You

Posted on Feb 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet

A growing number of scams are being perpetrated on telephone and Internet customers. Think you can easily identify bogus charges on your bill? Good luck.

Will Only Another Great Depression Save America?

Posted on Jan 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The economic crisis is really a political struggle between the rich and the rest of us.

How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them

Posted on Jan 8, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Our telecom industry's overseer doesn't seem to have any control to stop the greed. That's because it's a puppet of the industry giants.

Phone Companies' $100 Billion Rip-off -- Where Is That Hidden $6 a Month Going in Our Phone Bills?

Posted on Dec 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The phone companies are soaking all of us for a good chunk of money every month, and they're allowed to conceal it in the fine print of your monthly bill.

Class War Spurs Violent Clashes in Europe -- Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?

Posted on Nov 2, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

It is time for Americans to reclaim the concept of class war, to actively combat the great squeeze ruining the lives of untold millions of Americans.

Conservatives' Big Hypocrisy: Turning Women Candidates (Who Are Anti-Sex and Anti-Woman) into Sex Symbols

Posted on Oct 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet

The conservative right is happy for 'sexy' female candidates so long as they don't demand abortion rights, maternity leave, equal pay and equal sexual pleasure.

How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off

Posted on Oct 7, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Americans are stuck with an inferior and overpriced communications system, compared with the rest of the world, and we're being ripped off in the process.

Shameless Schemers Like Sarah Palin, the Tea Partiers and Right-Wing Christians Trying to Start a New Religious War Against Muslims

Posted on Aug 15, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

The building of a Muslim community center two blocks from the site of the WTC has become the latest controversy in America's long fought religious wars.

The Tea Party and Christian Right's Sneaky Anti-Abortion Crusade

Posted on Jul 4, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

The new anti-abortion movement is a continuation of the old religious war against a woman's right to choose and for sexual freedom, but with some important new twists.

Gay Sex Scandal Rocks Christian Right ... Again

Posted on May 9, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

George Rekers, caught with a gay escort, makes clear that sexual scandal is about more then sex and hypocrisy. It's also about denial, shame and pathology.

10 Biggest Sports Sex Scandals of All Time: How Does Tiger Woods Rate?

Posted on Dec 7, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

Woods' sex scandal is the latest battleground for a media debate over moral order -- here are 10 others that captivated the press and public.

Sanford's Sordid Sex Saga: Why We Like Publicly Shaming Hypocrite Politicians

Posted on Jun 29, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

Last week, Gov. Mark Sanford participated in one of the oldest social rituals in American history: public shaming of the moral hypocrite.

9 Ways to Halt the Right Wing Culture Wars and Bring Sanity to Sexual Policy

Posted on Dec 3, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

We have a unique opportunity to overturn the perverse agenda of the Religious Right.

Rape as an Instrument of Total War

Posted on Apr 14, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

Sexual assault has long been used as a tool of war. But as war tactics have changed, so have sex crimes in war-torn areas.
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