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Protesters Fight Nestle Bid to Tap into Scenic Columbia River Gorge Spring
Legal challenges are expected to delay the proposal for years, but opposition has been vocal from the beginning.
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Senator Bernie Sanders’ Bill Would End Off-Shore Tax Havens
Under legislation proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), corporations would pay U.S. taxes on their offshore profits as they are earned. The legislation would …
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Postmaster General Tries to Kill Saturday Delivery
As the Post Master General announced the suspension of Saturday delivery, thousands of workers look to Obama to reverse this drastic cut.
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Obama to Renew Drive for Cuts in Nuclear Arms
President Obama will use his State of the Union Address to push legislation to curb nuclear weaponry around the world.
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Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain – Food Sovereignty
From community gardens to just global policy, a national and global movement is growing to reclaim food, land, and agricultural systems from agribusiness and put them back in the …
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Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement “Inadequate“
Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil …
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Debating a Court to Vet Drone Strikes
There is an interest in applying the model of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to the targeted killing of suspected terrorists, or at least of American suspects.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Fight for Election Reform Got Some Huge Support, and More
In today's On the News segment: The fight for election reform got some huge support; Ohio Gov. John Kasich has joined the growing list of Republican governors trying to …
Move to National Electronic Health Records Potentially Risky for LGBT Patients
Digitized health records may be a step forward for improving overall health care, but how will they safely and competently account for the medically and socially marginalized LGBT community?
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Forty Years Later, Justice for Víctor Jara: School of the Americas Grads Indicted in Murder of the Popular Allende-Era Singer/Activist
Jara was among the first victims of the violence that swept Chile after the US-backed coup of 1973.