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Report: Path to Legal Status Harder Now for Women Immigrants
A report warns gender discrimination is built into US immigration law, but Congress appears unfazed.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Supreme Court Rules That Human Genes Cannot Be Patented, and More
The case, Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, challenged the biotechnology company's existing patents on two genes associated with high risks of breast cancer, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2.
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Berlin and Hamburg Referenda to Reverse Electricity Grid Privatization
Germany's two biggest cities are on course to re-nationalize their electricity grids. In both Berlin and Hamburg, citizen coalitions have successfully forced referenda to re-organize their cities' distribution of …
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Jail Bankers Not Grandmas
Protest against the plight of the elderly, poor, disenfranchised and dispossessed as opposed to the fate enjoyed by wealthy plutocrats took the form of multi-pronged actions on June 11 …
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Is “Business Productivity” Coming to the University of Texas?
Educational institutions are no longer safe from the reaches of profiteers.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democratic Congressman from CA Attempts to Put an End to Perpetual War; and More
Republicans in Senate push a hopeless anti-abortion bill and more. Thom Hartmann Reports.
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Israel has More Poverty than Any Developed Country
The OECD, like Israeli protestors, turns a blind eye to the occupation, which has become the greatest drain on Israel's welfare system.
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Striking Workers, Bangladeshi Activist Challenge Wal-Mart on Labor Conditions at Stores & Factories
Workers and activists converged to demand sweeping changes at the Walmart factories around the world.
Medgar Evers’ Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers “A Man for All Time”
Fifty years after his death, Amy Goodman sits down with the wife of civil rights activist Medgar Evans to talk about his legacy.
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Senate Begins Debate on Immigration Reform Bill
A comprehensive immigration reform package passed its first hurdle on Tuesday as the Senate voted 82-15 to begin debate on legislation. A key division is over the civil liberties …