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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Euro Zone Unemployment Hits Record High, and More
In today's On the News segment: Ohio Gov. John Kasich rejected federal aid for his state's tornado victims, Iceland's prime minister faces negligence charges related to 2008 crash, peaceful …
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And Now, the Catfood Party (2)
Like most establishment pundits, Thomas Friedman (and apparently most of the rest of the nation) came away
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Bowles-Simpson Commission Report
Parents often find it useful to tell their children about nonexistent creatures to instill habits of good behavior. It seems that many political leaders are going the same route. …
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AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent (2)
A man sits on a sled used to transport goods from Egypt in a tunnel beneath the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, on June 27, 2010. Two …
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Obama Says Military Force Is Option to Keep Iran From Getting Nuclear Weapons
Washington — President Barack Obama insisted Sunday he'd call for military action to prevent Iran from securing a nuclear weapon, even as he urged Israel and its supporters to …
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Treating Sick Rich Folks
Nancy Hemenway, a senior financial services executive and hospital patient, reads a newspaper in the library of the Eleven West wing at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, …
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A Real Job for the Vice President: Leading Congress
The vice presidency has been a joke for most of the nation’s history. The first vice president, John Adams, said it was “the most insignificant office that ever the …
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How to Fund an American Police State: Real Money for an Imaginary War (3)
At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. …
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Guantanamo Prison’s True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington. (Photo: Troy Page / Truthout) British journalist Andy Worthington, the author of “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison,” …
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Are the War Hawks Watching? In Lauded Iranian Film, Self-Interest Yields Tragedy
(Image: FilmIran / Sony Pictures Classics / Memento Films) It's hard not to view the Oscar for Best Foreign Film awarded to Iran's “A Separation” as at …