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Union-Backed Candidate Wins First Round in El Salvador Election
Ten unionists were martyred in a 1989 bombing by right-wing death squads, targeted because they were union leaders.

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How the UN Can Ignore 8,000 Deaths in Haiti
Many more Haitians will die from cholera, a disease brought to their country by the very people who were supposed to be saving them from disaster.

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Evidence Mounting That Walker Campaign Is at Center of Criminal Probe
Newly-unsealed court documents add to a growing body of evidence that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign is at the center of a wide-ranging secret probe into campaign finance violations …

Dark Money and the US Chamber of Commerce: Majority of Donations Given by Just 64 Entities
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is swimming in large donations from the top 1 percent.

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Digital Underground Believed to Be Behind Attack on Target
Although Target's breach remains under cloaked investigation with no official results, a security intelligence firm that tracks carder activity says it is following a ring of nine people dealing …

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Forty Koch Brothers Donors Exposed After Document Left at Hotel by Mistake Is Leaked
The confidential spreadsheet contains a who's who of far-right, mega-rich donors.

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The Day We Fight Back Against The NSA
The use of the Verizon building is significant because Verizon has been complicit with the NSA in spying on U.S citizens.

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The PTSD Crisis That’s Being Ignored: Americans Wounded in Their Own Neighborhoods
A growing body of research shows that Americans with traumatic injuries develop PTSD at rates comparable to veterans of war.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Four Thousand Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Internet Surveillance, and More
These programs and rulings are violating our civil rights, but they're also waking the sleeping giant of progressive activists.

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Federal Lawsuit Filed Against FEC Seeks to Shed Light on Karl Rove’s “Dark Money” Donors
That administrative complaint charged that Rove's group violated federal campaign finance law during the 2010 election cycle.