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On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Won’t Give Up Their Efforts to Voucher-ize Medicare, and More
In today's On the News segment: House Republicans won't give up on their efforts to voucher-ize Medicare; the gender pay gap is getting worse; college tuition costs continue to …
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Jack Lew, Citigroup and the Ugland Truth
In 2009, Obama said of the Cayman tax haven Ugland House, “either this is the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world.”
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State Department Opens Door to Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
Environmental groups are outraged as the State Department announced that the Keystone pipeline is unlikely to have a negative affect on climate change.
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Fracking Waste Could Go to North Carolina Coastal Towns If Ban Is Lifted
Despite longstanding legislation that bans dumping toxins deep underground in North Carolina, oil lobbyists are attempting to overturn the law.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Attorney General Eric Holder Made His Second Startling Confession, and More
Holder admitted that some banks are simply too big to prosecute; and more.
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The Debt “Trial of the Century” – Vulture Hedge Funds v. Argentina
Yesterday, two holdout vulture funds, including Paul Singer's NML Capital, were in a New York Federal court versus Argentina. The Financial Times has dubbed the proceeding the "'the trial …
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Venezuela’s Foreign Policy Without Chávez: Is This the End of ALBA?
A critical aspect of Venezuelau2019s post Chu00e1vez government is how its foreign policy will be structured.
EXCLUSIVE: Newly Released Autopsy Reports Raise Questions About Deaths of Two Guantanamo Detainees
And a prominent forensic pathologist criticizes Guantanamo officials for failing to more closely monitor another detainee before his death from cardiovascular disease in 2011.
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Guantanamo Hunger Strike “Potentially Life-Threatening,” Attorneys Allege in Letter to Prison Officials
The prisoners, many of whom have been cleared for release, refused food when guards started to seize their personal items, such as books, family photos, letters and legal mail.
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We’re All Women Workers Now: How the Floor of the Economy Has Dropped for Everyone
The jobs currently held by all workers are beginning to look more like stereotypical u201cwomenu2019s work.u201d