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Five Unnecessary SWAT Team Raids Gone Terribly Wrong
Here are five examples when the SWAT team was wholly unnecessary.
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Women and LGBT Activists Fighting Street Harassment Hollaback! – And It’s Working
Mobile app Hollaback! is creating a unique, crowd-sourced initiative to end street harassment.
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Supreme Court Dismisses Mulhall v. Unite Here, Giving Labor a Lucky Escape
In the “card check” process, one type of neutrality agreement, an employer agrees to recognize a union if a majority of workers sign union cards.
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Did ALEC Found SPN? 1991 Report Suggests So, Exposes SPN Agenda
The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network was “launched by ALEC ... and housed in the Chicago-based Heartland Institute,” says a 1991 report.
You Don’t Even Know You’re a Slave
Most of us are enslaved in our neo-feudal system, but most don't even know it.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The State of Connecticut Says You Have a Right to Know What’s in Your Food, and More
Thom Hartmann comments on the news for Friday, December 13, 2013.
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Too Many Secrets: Fixing the Government’s Broken System for Classifying Information
Mike Ludwig: While it's questionable whether the US government values the privacy of foreign governments and its own citizens, it's clear that the government values its own privacy.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: America’s Pensions Are Under Attack, and More
In today’s On the News segment: Politicians, corporations and even our courts are all chipping away at retirement benefits and promised healthcare that workers paid into throughout their careers; …
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As Olympic Winter Games Near, Russian LGBT Activists Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Laws
Gay rights activists from around the world are using the Olympics to put a spotlight on Russia's new law criminalizing the so-called “promotion of homosexuality.”
The Secret History of How Cuba Helped End Apartheid in South Africa
Historian Piero Gleijeses argues that it was Cuba's victory in Angola in 1988 that forced Pretoria to set Namibia free and helped break the back of apartheid South Africa.