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Despite our demand for CNN to at least provide equal time to defenders of Social Security, Medicare and public investment when discussing issues related to debt and the deficit, the sputtering network proceeded this weekend with its planned four hours of unchallenged deficit hysteria propaganda, fueled by the leadi read more »

Unless we successfully pressure CNN to change course, tomorrow it will air Pete Peterson's anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare anti-public investment deficit propaganda film "I.O.U.S.A" along with additional propaganda "commentary" from people who work for the Peterson Foundation. read more »

When opponents of Social Security speak out in favor of eviscerating the program, they rarely do so with the candor of Colorado Republican Rick O’Donnell. Don’t remember him? read more »

Cross posted from The Angry Bear The 2010 Social Security Report is due out any day now and I thought I could lay some groundwork for a number-based discussion of its implications, [Ed. note: The report has been delayed until June 30] starting with changes to the 75-year projection over time. read more »

Cross posted from Truthout read more »

This is the fifth installment in our Social Security Works series. read more »

This post originally appeared on AlterNet.org. read more »

Say what you will about leaders in the American Right, you have to admire their focus. They sit around with loaded shotguns waiting for a target of opportunity to appear. And, unlike Dick Cheney, they rarely miss. The latest clay pigeon to cross their field of vision is the financial crisis in Greece. The target, however, is not Greece but public sector pensions in the U.S.  read more »