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		<title>Wall Street was founded on slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street is a highly influential financial district but its history is rarely talked about. In order to understand the largesse of Wall Street and the system of global capitalism, it is crucial to know Wall Street&#8217;s history. Wall Street was founded on slavery and, to this day, it remains a key pillar in upholding racial inequality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=678&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Santorum — An Ally of the Rich, Not the Poor (my opinion piece in TurnstyleNews)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago, I wrote an opinion piece for turnstylenews.com, which is a great website powered by young (18-34) producers, reporters, and writers. I re-posted it on my blog here. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Despite his reputation, in some quarters, as a friend of the downtrodden, former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and current presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=681&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street: a movement against oligarchy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been three months since the Occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17, 2011. For the first few days, the movement was largely ignored by the mainstream media. Now it has gotten to the point where it cannot be ignored. The movement has spread to over one thousand cities across the United States and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=656&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trader tells truth to BBC&#8230;&#8221;Goldman Sachs rules the world&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video has been sparking a lot of controversy on the Internet and the media &#8212; and for good reason. In a shocking display of honesty, independent trader, Alessio Rastani, openly said: &#8220;For most traders, we don&#8217;t really care that much how they&#8217;re going to fix the economy, how they&#8217;re going to fix the whole [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=631&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our deep economic crisis and the inadequacy of Obama&#8217;s jobs plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of the economy remains one of the top issues in the media and in people&#8217;s minds. And rightly so. Last week, the Labor Department released a report stating that no new jobs were created in the month of August. Official unemployment remains at 9.1% at the end of August, which is up from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=613&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to prosecute Dick Cheney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been doing a massive publicity tour for his memoir. The book focuses on his long career in politics, including the infamous decisions he made (i.e., war crimes committed) during his time in the Bush administration. Throughout his media tour, he has been defending his vice presidency and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=606&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Aren&#8217;t We Talking about the People&#8217;s Budget?</title>
		<link>http://ajhudson.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/why-arent-we-talking-about-the-peoples-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week has been a rough week for the global economy. The stock market fell dramatically. S&#38;P downgraded the U.S.&#8217;s credit rating from AAA, its highest rating, to AA+ for the first time in history. The Eurozone continues to be in trouble with Spain and Greece possibly needing a bailout. In addition, London, and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=597&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obama&#8217;s Debt Deal is Bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of political theater coming across as partisan bickering over raising the debt ceiling limit to avoid default, the U.S. Congress passed a debt deal that President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday. The deal passed the House 269 to 161 and the Senate 74 to 26. For weeks, politicians and the media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=577&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systematic Racism Still Exists</title>
		<link>http://ajhudson.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/systematic-racism-still-exists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, PolicyMic.com published my article on police brutality and systemic racism. Here it is below. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; On New Year’s Eve 2009, Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black male, was shot in Oakland, Calif., by white Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer Johannes Mehserle. Several people witnessed the shooting and it was caught on tape. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=560&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Middle East speech&#8230;nothing new here</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s speech about recent developments in the Middle East was unimpressive. He proclaimed the U.S. supports democracy and &#8220;universal rights&#8221; but given the U.S.&#8217;s practice of torture and occupation of two countries, that proclamation is hypocritical. Obama said that the United States supports the current Arab uprisings. Yet, the U.S. was late in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ajhudson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8611390&amp;post=541&amp;subd=ajhudson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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