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Norway Sounds Alarm Bells About Growing Right-Wing in Europe
Surrounding a statue of former Prime Minister Christian Michelsen, a memorial of flowers and candles was made to honor the victims killed in an act of domestic terrorism last …
Israel’s Reaction to Palestinian Nonviolence Threatens Israeli Democracy
On Friday, 8 July 2011, in the heavily air-conditioned international arrivals terminal of Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv, dozens of press photographers clamored to get the best …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Norwegian Terrorist Anders Breivik Got His Weapons From US, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this. Speaker of the House John Boehner no longer has control over the Republican Party. Last night …
Clinton’s Nuclear Bargain With India
(Photo: U.S. Embassy New Delhi / Flickr) If a "strategic partnership" is here, can business pacts be far behind? US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left no …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: General Electric Moving Its Entire X-Ray Business Headquarters to China, and More
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Whirlpool of Crazy: A Letter to European Friends
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 15, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) …
War and the True Tragedy of the Commons
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: Dave Clarke, Expert Infantry) The "Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin's 1968 controversial essay published in Science, essentially targeted overpopulation (read: …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Florida Attorney General Fires State Prosecutors for Going After Big Banks’ Foreclosure Fraud, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this. Speaker of the House John Boehner had a few more cocktails than normal last night – …
How the DoD Allows Contractors to Grade Themselves and Write Their Own Contract Terms, Part II
(Image: JR / Truthout) In last week's Solutions column, Dina Rasor focused on the findings of a DoD Inspector General (IG) report that described Organizational Conflicts of …
Don’t Accuse Obama of “Caving“
In a campaign almost as frenzied as the effort to get Barack Obama into the White House, liberal groups are now mobilizing against the White House and reported deals …