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House GOP Proposes Deep Cuts to Highway, Transit Funding
A six-year transportation funding bill that Republicans in the House of Representatives outlined Thursday would sharply cut highway and transit funding and seek to curb Amtrak and high-speed rail …
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Obama’s Debt Talks Alarm Democrats About Social Security
President Barack Obama looked forward Thursday to a weekend of “hard bargaining” with Republicans over the federal budget deficit — but faced a rebellion from his own Democrats and …
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British PM Orders Two Inquiries Into Murdoch Hacking Scandal
London - British police arrested a former editor of The News of the World tabloid on Friday who had also been a senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, …
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Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Law
While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) law dismantling collective bargaining rights has harmed teachers, nurses, and other civil servants, it’s helping a different group in Wisconsinites — inmates. Prisoners …
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Murdoch to Close Tabloid as Fury Rises Over Hacking
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation, USA, captured during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2009. (Photo: Monika Flueckiger / World Economic Forum) …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Brzezinski Warns Wealth Gap May Lead to Uprising in US Streets, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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New Guidance Allows Nations to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
A Whole Foods store in Edgewater, New Jersey, in July 2009. The initials GMO stand for genetically modified organism. Participants in the Non-GMO Project include major players in the …
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Michigan Guts Democracy and Now Aims for Workers’ Paychecks
It’s not enough that Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder took away basic democratic rights of cities and towns by imposing a “financial martial law” that can virtually abolish a …
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Closing the Hedge Fund Manager Tax Loophole Would Raise Four Billion Annually From the 25 Richest Managers
During the negotiations regarding raising the nation’s debt ceiling, congressional Republicans have gone to the mat to defend all manner of unwarranted tax breaks, including those for oil companies …
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Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation
Japan's leading business journal “Toyo Keizai” has published an article by Hokkaido Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment specialist. The piece, entitled "The Problem of Radiation Exposure …