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Report: America’s Domestic Workers Raise Kids, Care for Seniors, Run Households Without Benefits, Protections or a Living Wage
Domestic workers and caregivers toil for long hours, low pay and few legal protections.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Movement in the US Senate Aims to Abolish Indefinite Detention, and More
As the so-called fiscal cliff nears, Republicans will likely hold things like extended unemployment benefits hostage.
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Quantico psychiatrist Claims Bradley Manning’s Pretrial Conditions Worse than Death Row
Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of …
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Challenging President Morsi On Tahrir Square
As a part of delegations over the past four years that have made their way to Gaza, we have stopped in Cairo to pick up needed authorizations. This week …
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Stevie Wonder, Peace Activist, To Fundraise for the IDF
Longtime civil rights and Apartheid activist and musician Stevie Wonder was just named lead performer at the Friends of the Israeli Defense Force annual fundraising gala.
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BP to Shareholders: We’re Already Working With EPA to Lift Federal Contract Ban
BP's suspension from obtaining government contracts may be much shorter than expected.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: “Stand Your Ground” Gun Law Strikes Again in Florida, and More
In today's On the News segment: “Stand Your Ground” strikes again in Florida this past weekend, as 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis was shot and killed for yelling back at …
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Portuguese Join Europe’s Chorus of Discontent
Until a few months ago, Portugal was seen as a role model in the grinding euro zone crisis, adopting deep spending cuts and raising taxes to reduce its deficit without the …
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Breaking Private Manning
Bradley Manning is being punished u2013 and tortured u2013 for a crime that amounts to believing oneu2019s highest duty is to the American people and not the American government.
Who’s Getting Pushed Off the “Fiscal Cliff”?
Progressive Democrats lobby against a Grand Bargain that will further unravel the social safety net.