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Tax Incentives to Companies Bleeding Towns Dry, With Few Results
States, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies, with few results.
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Fossil Fuel Lobby in the Driver’s Seat at Doha
A new scientific report shows that global warming can be kept well under two degrees C, but only if most of the known deposits of coal, oil and gas …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Thanks to Citizens United, Foreign Entities Are Meddling in Our Elections, and More
In today's On the News segment: Thanks to Citizens United, foreign entities are meddling in our elections; an overwhelming majority of nations supported granting Palestine observer-state status; Hostess is …
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GOP Extremists Continue to Push Repugnant Anti-Women Laws
Some Republicans are continuing to fight the same noxious battles, in some cases putting women's access at risk.
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Cleveland Anarchist Bomb Plot Aided and Abetted by the FBI
Rather than target real risks of domestic terror, like neo-Nazis, the FBI entrapment machine demonises anarchists and Muslims.
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GAO Report on Guantanamo Doesn’t Touch Indefinite Detention, Civil Liberties Offenses
The Government Accountability Office finds it would be possible to close the military facility and move the 166 detainees to the US.
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Syrian Government Cuts Off Internet Access
The Syrian government cut off the entire countries access to the internet on Thursday during fierce fighting in Damscus.
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Whistleblower: Nuclear Regulators Suppress Facts, Break Law
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has known at least since 1996 that flooding danger from upstream dam failure that can effect any of 34 vulnerable nuclear plants in the nation.
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ALEC Convenes in Washington; Damage Control at Top of Agenda
Members of ALEC are convening this week in Washington, DC to try to salvage the organization's viability.
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Why Are Cows Tails Dropping Off?
Evidence of food contamination on land that farmers lease to oil companies for fracking is not reassuring.