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Military Considers Cutting 25 Percent of Army Personnel, Marines to Trim Budget for Sequester
The budget cuts, known as sequestration, have forced the Pentagon to craft a number of contingency plans.
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Tunisian Protesters Occupy the Streets as Parliament on Verge of Collapse
Thirty-three months later, thousands of protesters, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, now seek the ouster of Tunisia's elected Islamist Ennahdha government, which has failed to produce a …
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Investigation: What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing
Chase took advantage of a loophole in the energy markets, scamming taxpayers and inflating energy costs.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Federal Reserve of Dallas Estimates the Real Cost of the Economic Meltdown Between Six and 14 Trillion Dollars, and More
In today's On the News segment: A new report from the Federal Reserve of Dallas estimates the real cost of the 2007-2009 economic meltdown to be between six and …
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The Plight of California’s Prisoners: Hunger Strike, Sterilization and Valley Fever
While we complain of 100 degree heat and take solace in our air-conditioned homes, prisoners across the country are suffering - and not just for their crimes.
Ex-Envoy’s Account Clarifies Iran’s 2003 Nuclear Decision
Newly published recollections by the former French ambassador to Iran suggest that Iran was not running a covert nuclear weapons programme that it then decided to halt in late …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals Has Ruled on a New Aspect of Corporate Personhood, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on a new aspect of corporate personhood u2013 a corporation's right to the free exercise …
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Barack Obama is NOT Trayvon Martin
Joel Northam, reporting for Acronym TV, states: "President Obama could have been Trayvon Martin 35 years ago, yet fortunately he was privileged enough to receive an elite education whilst …
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Three Things about the TPP you need to Know and Share
When the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections commission that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government, many …
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Hunger Strikers and the Law vs. the Prison Industry
Diana Zuniga is statewide coordinator for CURB, Californians United for a Responsible Budget: CurbPrisonSpending.org She discusses the hunger strike in California prisons and the ongoing struggle to resist further …