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Poll: Sixty-Five Percent of Americans Want More Fracking Regulations
(Photo: ProgressOhio / Flickr) The number of Americans who say they want more regulation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, outnumber those who want less regulation by a …
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As Obama Picks Up Union Endorsements, a Debate on Labor’s Role in 2012 Campaign
We host a debate on Big Labor’s endorsement of President Obama’s re-election between labor reporter Mike Elk and Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180, a …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: UN to Weigh In on American Voter ID Laws, and More
In today's On the News segment: Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for all NATO troops to be pulled out of rural areas, United Nations will weigh in on American …
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Storming the Bastille
Translated Wednesday 14 March 2012, by Henry Crapo (who is a member of Truthout's Board of Advisors) and reviewed by Isabelle Métral. "We are going to create a …
Karzai Calls on US to Pull Back as Taliban Cancel Talks
Kabul, Afghanistan - Prospects for an orderly withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan suffered two blows on Thursday as President Hamid Karzai demanded that the United States confine troops …
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Who’s a Freeloader?
A year ago, Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin published a paper based on their in-depth interviews of Tea Party activists. A longer presentation of their research was published as a book a …
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US Auto Industry Is Much More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Industrial robots assemble a 2012 Chevrolet Sonic at the General Motors Orion Assembly Plant in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Photo: Fabrizio Costantini / The New York Times) …
Infiltration of Political Movements Is the Norm, Not the Exception in the United States
On March 6 members of an off-shoot of Anonymous, Lulzsec, were arrested as a result of an FBI informant, Sabu, who the media describes as a Lulzsec leader. The …
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A Call for US and Afghan Citizens to Question the US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement
The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers question the presumption that the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is necessary for American or Afghan peace.
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Women Figure Anew in Senate’s Latest Battle
Washington - With emotions still raw from the fight over President Obama’s contraception mandate, Senate Democrats are beginning a push to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the once …