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On the News with Thom Hartmann: Public Sector Layoffs Nibbling Away at Employment Recovery, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Haiti: Seven Places Where Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go
Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds of thousands were killed and many more wounded. …
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Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO
Former Prime Minister Rasmussen. (Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr) A scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, …
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Explosion in Syrian Capital Leaves 25 People Dead
Beruit - A bomb tore through a densely populated neighborhood in Damascus on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding dozens more in the second attack in the Syrian capital …
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Two Ex-Scott Walker Staffers Arrested in Ongoing Investigation
An expansive “John Doe” corruption investigation targeting employees and former employees of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has led to its first arrests today, nabbing three people, including two …
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Citizens United Backlash Grows from Cali. to NYC Urging Congress to Overturn Corporate Personhood
Adding to a growing nationwide backlash against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, California lawmakers have introduced a resolution that calls on Congress to "propose and send to …
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Defying GOP and Eying Re-Election, Obama Makes Bold Recess Pick of Cordray for Consumer Bureau
President Obama has defied Congress by installing former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the country’s first head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, established to protect citizens against …
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Indiana Workers Fight Back Against Assault on Unions and the ALEC Agenda
Thousands of Indiana workers rallied outside, and inside, their state capitol on Wednesday to speak out against Governor Mitch Daniels' renewed effort to force through so-called “right to work” …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Report Shows ALEC Owns Virginia Lawmakers, and More
In today's On the News segment: New report by the advocacy group ProgressNow shows lawmakers in Virginia have outsourced their jobs to the shadowy, Koch brothers-funded, corporate think tank …
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Rick Santorum Challenges John F. Kennedy’s Secular Promise
When it comes to the separation of church and state, presidential hopeful Rick Santorum says John F. Kennedy got it all wrong. When Kennedy was running for …