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The War Against the Poor - Truthdig

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We've been at war for decades now—not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it's been a war against the poor, but if you hadn't noticed, that's not surprising. You wouldn't often have found the casualty ...

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Time for no-fly zone in war on the poor? - CBS News

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Bio: Frances Fox Piven is on the faculty of the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author, along with Richard Cloward, of Regulating the Poor and Poor People's Movements. Her latest book, just published, is Who's Afraid of ...

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The Moral Force of OWS is Tackling the Devastating War on the Poor - AlterNet

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Devastating as it's been, the war against the poor has gone largely unnoticed -- until now. Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Economy headlines via email. We've been at war for decades now -- not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at ...

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Occupy Wall Street Reveals the Paucity of Political Morality - Pacific Free Press

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We've been at war for decades now -- not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it's been a war against the poor, but if you hadn't noticed, that's not surprising. ...

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Why Glenn Beck's Paranoid Theories of Social Collapse Are a Real Threat to ... - AlterNet

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Whatever you think of that article, and I still like it, it was written some 45 years ago in a magazine with a rather small readership. ...

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The Real Threat of Glenn Beck's Fantasies - The Indypendent

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Whatever you think of that article, and I still like it, it was written some 45 years ago in a magazine with a rather small readership. ...

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Why Is Glenn Beck Obsessively Targeting Progressive Visionary Frances Fox Piven? - AlterNet

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For more than a year, Fox News host Glenn Beck has been increasingly targeting Frances Fox Piven, a 78-year-old distinguished professor of political science ...

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