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Chicago Kicks Out G8, Prepares for NATO
(Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / The Occupied Chicago Tribune) It’s not you, it’s me, said the White House in announcing their plan to move May’s G8 summit from …
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Subprime Schools Lobbyist Trent Lott Explains How He Won Over Congress
The for-profit college industry – which runs what some would refer to as “subprime schools” – is facing more and more scrutiny for its abusive practices that leave …
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The Peace Movement Needs Kucinich, With or Without Congress
(Photo: Andy Carvin / Flickr) If Congressman Dennis Kucinich becomes simply Dennis Kucinich sans the “Congressman” his value to the peace movement need not diminish. …
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Obama Unveils “Clean” Vehicle Initiative
Mount Holly, North Carolina - Mixing politics with policy, President Barack Obama returned to North Carolina on Wednesday to step up his wooing of this key election-year swing state …
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The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
What’s it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison? Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it’s born? …
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Despite Risks, Undocumented Immigrants Stage “Coming Out of the Shadows” Week
(Photo: Ted Hesson / Flickr) Despite a year of record deportations and little movement on a progressive immigration policy, undocumented people are coming out and publicly declaring …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: A New Study Shows That Extreme Poverty in America Has Doubled in the Last 15 Years, and More (2)
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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What’s Ahead for Rep. Dennis Kucinich?
Dennis Kucinich, the liberal icon who tried twice to get the Democratic nomination for president, in Lorain, Ohio, January 1, 2012. In a newly drawn …
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The Bipartisan Force Behind the For-Profit College Scam: Big Money
As we head into an election year, we’re going to increasingly hear that Democrats and Republicans fight like cats and dogs, that there is a civil war in Washington. …
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The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Fight for Compensation
Tales from the Disaster Zone In March 2011 Shoji Katsuzo was farming rice, vegetables and cows in a small plot of land in Iitate village, Fukushima …