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40 Years on, 1960s Black Radical Still Suffers Racial and Political InjusticeÂ
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)The consequences of America's racist history still linger deep into the present. No one understands this better than Gary Freeman, a 1960s black civil rights …
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After “Constructive” Talks on Iran Nuclear Program, Hopes Rise for Diplomacy
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times)Istanbul, Turkey - Major world powers Saturday said their first meeting with Iran in over a year took …
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Romney Assures NRA of Support for Gun Rights
Mitt Romney. (Photo: BU Interactive News / Flickr)St. Louis - As he seeks to inspire the conservative base ahead of the general election, Mitt Romney spoke to the National …
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Murder of a Nobody
Kevin Sibbitt, a 911 Dispatcher, listens to a call. (Photo: JBLM PAO / Flickr)Victim on Lot 5 Diane Clemmons Belton was a nobody. For a time, years ago, after …
Suicides Outpace Combat Deaths, and Benefits Access a Struggle, for Veterans of Falklands/Malvinas War
The battle for the British-controlled Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina continues to kill, even 30 years after Argentine troops landed there on April 2, 1982. The struggle …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Court Rules in Favor of Allowing Political Ads on Public Television, and More
In today's On the News segment: Multinational firms' tax loopholes are hurting small businesses, freak wildfires are resulting from our unseasonably warm spring weather, Pakistan demands end to US …
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Save Our Clinics: Chicago Activists Occupy to Save Mental Health Services
Occupy Chicago activists link arms to form a human chain outside the occupied Woodlawn Clinic on the night of Thursday, April 12 2012. (Photo: Marcus Demery / Flickr)In the …
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Phony GOP Meme of the Moment: “Gas Prices Have Doubled Under Obama!“
You've heard the Republican meme of the moment. Mitt Romney, the GOP front-runner and presumptive Presidential nominee recently told supporters that the price of gas has “doubled under this president.” Newt …
US-Israel Deal to Demand Qom Closure Threatens Nuclear Talks with Iran
Washington, DC - The Barack Obama administration has adopted a demand in the negotiations with Iran beginning Saturday that its Fordow enrichment facility must be shut down and eventually …
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Fracking in Los Angeles? Test Wells at Urban Oil Field Spark Water Worries
Earlier this year, the oil company Plains Exploration and Production (PXP) blasted water and chemicals more than one and half miles into the earth to force oil embedded in …