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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Reaganomics Has Created Poverty, and More
In today's On the News segment: Three decades of Reaganomics has left half of our entire nation in poverty; rather than waiting on Congress, last week, the Connecticut General …

Austerity Is Crap
Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …

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FCC Votes To Curb Media Consolidation in Local TV Markets
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Monday to make changes to its broadcast ownership attribution rules that advocates say will help curb a wave of corporate media consolidation in …

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: We’re Still Seeing the Effects of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 25 Years Later, and More
In today's On the News segment: It's been a quarter of a century since the Exxon Valdez spill, and fewer than half of the fish and wildlife populations in …

Millions Sindhi Hold Freedom March in Karachi To Demand Independence
People in the Punjab province celebrated Republic Day in Pakistan on March 23, with CNN claiming there were at least “5 million Sindhis” in attendance.

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Dahr Jamail | The Vanishing Arctic Ice Cap
Arctic sea ice researchers are predicting that sea ice will no longer last through summers in the next couple of years, and even US Navy researchers have predicted an …

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A Honduran Paradise That Doesn’t Want to Anger the Sea Again
At the mouth of the Aguan river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garifuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane …

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Drugmakers Agree to US Ban on Livestock Antibiotics
Pharmaceutical companies have overwhelmingly agreed to new US government guidelines aimed at decreasing the use of antibiotics in the raising of livestock, new data shows.

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Chile Derails “Monsanto Law” That Would Privatize Seeds
This month, rural women, indigenous communities, and farmers in Chile found themselves on the winning end of a long-fought battle against a bill that had come to be known …

Meet the Plush GMO Mascot, Frank N. Foode
Frank N. Foode is “your friendly neighborhood genetically modified organism,” who helps “make the science of biotechnology fun and approachable.”