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Not Again! How Our Voting System is Ripe for Theft and Meltdown in 2012

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/story/156252/not_again!_how_our_voting_system_is_ripe_for_theft_and_meltdown_in_2012?akid=9052.9992.Q0d0lh&rd=1&t=2

The Republican war on voters is only the start of really big problems voters face in the 2012 presidential election.

How Out-of-Control Credit Markets Threaten Liberty, Democracy and Economic Security

Edward Harrison, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/story/156193/how_out-of-control_credit_markets_threaten_liberty%2C_democracy_and_economic_security_?akid=9052.9992.Q0d0lh&rd=1&t=15

J11: Zuccotti Re-Occupation Stirs Nostalgia for Last Fall

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1026807/j11%3A_zuccotti_re-occupation_stirs_nostalgia_for_last_fall/#paragraph3

Banksters Take Us to the Brink

Bill Moyers & Michael Winship, Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/13

Green Party Convenes in Baltimore to Nominate Jill Stein for President and Ralph Nader has Endorsed Rocky Anderson’s Candidacy

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/13-5

The Selling of American Democracy: The Perfect Storm

Robert Reich, RobertReich.org

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/13-7

The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union

Sara Robinson, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/story/156311/the_new_totalitarianism%3A_how_american_corporations_have_made_america_like_the_soviet_union?akid=9067.9992.GjJZ1W&rd=1&t=2

Free-market capitalism was supposed to save us from the tyranny of faceless apparatchiks.  But that’s not what happened.

New York Activists Blockade Foreclosure Auctions to Stop Banks Selling Homes

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/story/156325/new_york_activists_blockade_foreclosure_auctions_to_stop_banks_selling_homes_?akid=9067.9992.GjJZ1W&rd=1&t=18

In each of the five boroughs of New York City, each week, there’s a foreclosure auction.  And this week, community activists turned up to try and stop it.

So-Called Fiscal Cliff is Baloney; Our Economy Can Recover if Obama Focuses on What We Really Need – JOBS!

Marshall Auerback, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/story/156304/so-called_fiscal_cliff_is_baloney%3B_our_economy_can_recover_if_obama_focuses_on_what_we_really_need%3A_jobs!?akid=9067.9992.GjJZ1W&rd=1&t=24

Talk about deficits and tax cuts distracts us from the great New Deal lesson – An economy recovers when people go back to work.