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Nineteen Million Jobs for US Workers
Highlights of Main Findings Starting with the financial collapse and Great Recession of 2008-09, the U.S. economy has been experiencing the most severe and protracted employment crisis …
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Seven Years After Sieges, Fallujah Struggles
Fallujah, Iraq - Fallujah still bears the scars of war; skeletons continue to be pulled from the rubble of bombed buildings, and, worse, rates of birth defects and childhood …
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The Republican Candidates’ Economic Agenda for the 1 Percent
This Tuesday, Iowans will officially kick off the process to nominate the Republican candidate for president. A close examination of all of the GOP candidates’ records and policy …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Montana’s Supreme Court Blocks Citizens United Decision From Applying to State Election Laws, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated the New Year by reoccupying Zuccotti Park late Saturday night, natural gas “fracking” just caused an earthquake …
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Iowa Republicans Poised to Remake Campaign for White House
Polk City, Iowa - Iowa Republicans will gather Tuesday night at fire stations, schools, libraries and community centers across the state to vote their choice for the GOP nomination …
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Panetta to Offer Strategy for Cutting Military Budget
Washington - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is set this week to reveal his strategy that will guide the Pentagon in cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from its …
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New Graphic Novel Reveals the Orwellian Underworld of the Iranian Theocratic Regime
(Image: First Second) Over the past few years, Amir, an Iranian human rights activist and documentary filmmaker living in the United States, struggled to tell anyone who …
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As Big Bank Stocks Plunge, CEOs Continue to Reap Huge Salaries
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Company, talks with the media after testifying in front of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, on Capitol Hill in Washington on …
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Rumsfeld-Era Propaganda Program Whitewashed by Pentagon
A controversial public relations program run by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's Pentagon was cleared of any wrong-doing by the agency's inspector general in a report published last …
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When a Child Is Abused by a War Veteran
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) I'm torn between the pleasure of having just read a brilliant and moving first-person stream-of-consciousness account of a true story of one …