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Americans may be divided on a number of issues, but when it comes to Free Trade it seems the nation is united, against it. Public Citizen compiled various polling data from 2008 to the present and found Americans generally agree that Free Trade agreements have been bad for US workers. In September 2010 a joint NBC News-Wall Street …

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The pressure is mounting on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end a brutal five-month crackdown on non-violent protesters that has left more than 2,000 people dead. International criticism against al-Assad is growing, in-part because the brutality has significantly increased during the holy month of Ramadan. On Monday, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah launched a rare public attack on …

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“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …

Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.

The media used terms like “financial apocalypse” to sensationalize the national debate over the debt-ceiling, but one point that has been crystallized is the fact that we, the United States of America, spend more money than we make. However, State, County, and City governments are not allowed to do the same. Instead, …

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We’ll examine what’s behind the S&P credit downgrade and the impact it’s having on the economy. And, an update on Syria, as protestors defiantly continue their actions and the Syrian government is increasingly isolated. Plus, the status of free trade deals from Korea t0 Panama. And this week’s edition of Civic Circus. …

Syrian protesters answered President Bashar Assad’s bid to crush a popular uprising by military force with defiance Friday, braving gunfire and tanks to turn out by the tens of thousands around the capital and across the country.

It was the first major day of demonstrations since an offensive in the city of Hama began six days earlier. They signaled the failure so far of Assad’s use of the military to try to regain full control of …

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Check out the 4-piece Los Angeles based band, The Wallburds. We featured their song Tears, from their self-titled debut album today on Uprising.

Here’s a video of one of their live performances of a song called Hourglass:

More about The Wallburds at www.thewallburds.com

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State legislators from around the country converged on New Orleans last week to mingle with corporate lobbyists at the 38th annual conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. Conference attendees reportedly noshed on dinners costing upwards of $100 a person, with much of the costs paid for by ALEC scholarships and the tax-payer funded expense accounts that come …

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After the debt-ceiling deal was sealed last week, sleep-deprived members of both chambers of Congress high-tailed it out of DC for a summer recess. The twist is, both chambers are technically still in session. Marian Wang at ProPublica reported last week that avoiding an official adjournment allows House Republicans to block the President’s ability to make recess appointments. The exodus …

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The Left’s discontent with President Obama has manifested itself in a resolution passed by the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party on July 30th. The resolution’s claim that “President Obama [is] negotiating away Democratic Party principles to extremist Republicans” is supported by a laundry list of specific criticisms that include Obama’s support of a health insurance bill that …

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