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Immigration: Global Economy Has Forced Migration
Los Angeles, California - Bert Corona, hero of the US immigrant rights movement. (Photos: David Bacon) Development of the Immigrant Rights Movement to 1986 …
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Mitch Daniels’ State of the Union Response Shows GOP Priority: Beating Up on Workers
Last night’s State of the Union response by Mitch Daniels was remarkable before he uttered a single word. Daniels’ response was the first to be delivered from a …
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Is Schneiderman Selling Out? Joins Federal Committee That Looks Designed to Undermine AGs Against Mortgage Settlement Deal
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been celebrated as the progressive Great White Hope. But the danger of assuming leadership is that that individual becomes a target both …
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Washington Post CEO, Kaplan and Predatory Accounting That Hits Poor Students Hard
In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Washington Post CEO Donald Graham admits that Kaplan University engaged in a scheme to raise tuition on poor students. The scheme was launched …
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Former Obama Adviser: Focus on US Inequality in Election-Year State of the Union Has Occupy Wall Street’s Imprint
In his last State of the Union speech before the November election, President Obama defended his record addressing the financial crisis and called for greater economic fairness. He warned …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Mitt Romney Is Definitely Wall Street’s Favorite Guy, and More
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Warning: High Frequency
Consider this story: It’s January 1990, during the pioneer build-out of mobile phone service. A cell tower goes up 800 feet from the house of Alison Rall, in Mansfield, …
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USDA Ignores Pesticide Ravaging Bee Population, Threatening Global Environment
It has recently been reported that certain research was suppressed concerning the bee decline which has been occurring over the past few years. It seems that the large sum …
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Egypt Today, One Year Later: A Revolution Revisited
One year ago in February 2011, getting to Egypt wasn’t that easy. Back then, my London flight crew suddenly refused, in midair, to layover in Cairo. Instead, we touched …
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Obama Frames His Election-Year Vision in State of the Union Address
Washington - President Barack Obama used an election-year State of the Union address Tuesday night to frame the national debate not as a referendum on him but as a …