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Solution to Student Debt is to Get the Banks Out of the Education Business
Michael Hudson: Crippling student debt, which is also a drag on the whole ecnonomy, developed as governments pushed the burden of higher education costs onto students and pushed them …
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ALEC, Meat/Poultry Industries, State Bills Target Farm Animal Abuse Videos Revealing Calves Skinned Alive, Cows Suffocated
My brother just emailed me a link from Seattlepi.com that made my stomach turn. Then again, animal cruelty, like all torture, always does, but the abuses in this story …
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Privatization Limits Access to Public Information
As private companies buy up projects in the public sector, transparency becomes a thing of the past.
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Maliki’s Iraq: Rape, Executions and Torture
Iraq is wracked by torture and executions, and fingers are pointing at Prime Minister Maliki.
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The Wealth of Business Connections for Obama’s Energy Pick
Criticism of Ernest Moniz has focused on his support for nuclear power and for natural gas extracted through fracking.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Bill Meant to Strengthen Gun Regulations Could Turn Into One That Actually Enhances Guns Rights, and More
In today's On the News segment:Â The bill the Senate is voting on next month to strengthen gun regulations could turn into one that actually enhances guns rights;Â nearly every state …
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Peripheral Tunnel Water Will Go to Agribusiness and Oil Companies
Missed in the mainstream media coverage of the release of the revised Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents on March 14 was the alarming role the peripheral tunnels could …
New York’s Police Union Worked With the NYPD to Set Arrest and Summons Quotas
Some officers sought out or even manufactured arrests to avoid department retaliation.
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Detroit Citizens Prepare to Fight Their Corporate Master
What is needed is a social movement that will unite Labor and Civil Rights organizations and get Detroit's residents out into the streets in mass protest actions.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Judge Rules Against Attempt to Strike Down Health Care Law on Religious Grounds
A Missouri Court has struck down a law undermining the Affordable Care Act.