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The Peace Movement Needs Kucinich, With or Without Congress
(Photo: Andy Carvin / Flickr) If Congressman Dennis Kucinich becomes simply Dennis Kucinich sans the "Congressman" his value to the peace movement need not diminish. …
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Obama Unveils “Clean” Vehicle Initiative
Mount Holly, North Carolina - Mixing politics with policy, President Barack Obama returned to North Carolina on Wednesday to step up his wooing of this key election-year swing state …
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The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
What’s it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison? Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it’s born? …
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Despite Risks, Undocumented Immigrants Stage “Coming Out of the Shadows” Week
(Photo: Ted Hesson / Flickr) Despite a year of record deportations and little movement on a progressive immigration policy, undocumented people are coming out and publicly declaring …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: A New Study Shows That Extreme Poverty in America Has Doubled in the Last 15 Years, and More (2)
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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What’s Ahead for Rep. Dennis Kucinich?
Dennis Kucinich, the liberal icon who tried twice to get the Democratic nomination for president, in Lorain, Ohio, January 1, 2012. In a newly drawn …
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The Bipartisan Force Behind the For-Profit College Scam: Big Money
As we head into an election year, we’re going to increasingly hear that Democrats and Republicans fight like cats and dogs, that there is a civil war in Washington. …
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The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Fight for Compensation
Tales from the Disaster Zone In March 2011 Shoji Katsuzo was farming rice, vegetables and cows in a small plot of land in Iitate village, Fukushima …
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The Richest 1 Percent Captured 93 Percent of Income Gains in 2010
Though the economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, large swaths of the American public are still bogged down by joblessness, underwater mortgages, and falling incomes. In fact, …
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Gulf Fisheries in Decline After Oil Disaster
New Orleans, Louisiana - Hundreds of thousands of people living along the US Gulf Coast have hung their economic lives on lawsuits against BP. Fishermen, in particular, …