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15 Oct 09

Oligarchic Senate Still ‘Treasonous’ After All These Years

"Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be."

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07 Oct 09

What Have We Done to Democracy? | Arundhati Roy

What happens now that democracy's institutions have all metastasized into something dangerous? <<>> What happens now that democracy + free market have fused into a single predatory organism?

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