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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Next Report From the IPCC Is Due in March, and More
The next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due at the end of March, and according to the Associated Press, we shouldn't expect good news, and …
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Supreme Court Denies Review of NSA Warrantless Surveillance Case
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would not hear Center for Constitutional Rights v. Obama, a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of people within the …
New Cases of Corporate Spying Bolster Troubling Trend: What Is Being Done About It?
Corporations and private intelligance firms are spying on whistleblowers, activists and journalists, but is anything being done to hold them to account?
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San Francisco Protesters Take Aim at Twitter’s Tax Breaks
Last Wednesday, more than 400 San Francisco city employees marched from the city's Department of Human Resources to Twitter headquarters a few blocks away. The workers chanted, "Twitter, you're …
Hundreds of Keystone XL Protestors Arrested, Look To Influence Obama’s Final Decision on Pipeline
Hundreds of students demand President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline deal, but Obama has already fast tracked the southern half of the pipeline which is currently delivering Canadian …
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Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture
What is necessary is a “systematic redesign of how we get our staple food crops,” Shepard says.
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Obama Nominates SOPA Lobbyist for TPP Trade Post
If confirmed by the US Senate, Holleyman will help lead the effort to pass the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
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Natural Gas Boom Advances With Little Study of Public Health Effects, Report Finds
A new study has underscored just how little is known about the health consequences of the natural gas boom that began a decade ago, when advances in high-volume hydraulic …
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Dahr Jamail | Iraqi Government Killing Civilians in Fallujah
The Iraqi government is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its ongoing attack against Fallujah - conducted ostensibly against an al-Qaeda affiliate.
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Proposed Florida Law Would Allow Warning Shots
The change would broaden the “stand your ground” law, which allows anyone in fear of death or serious injury to use deadly force.