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Missouri Will Balance Its Budget With Foreclosure Settlement Funds
Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced that he would use the funds his state received from a $26 billion mortgage settlement between 49 states and the nation’s …
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OccupyKXL: The 99 Percent Takes a Stand With 24 Hours Against Keystone
A broad coalition of the grassroots progressive movement is launching a 24-hour effort to mobilize 500,000 people opposing Republican efforts to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. GOP …
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Bishops Say Extend Unemployment – Compare And Contrast with Birth Control Controversy
For the last several days there has been an absolute furor over the Obama administration's decision to require employer health insurance plans to cover birth control. Republicans went so …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama’s New Budget Raises Taxes on Wealthy, Cuts Social Programs, and More
In today's On the News segment: Obama unveils his 2013 budget today, Athens is on fire after latest round of brutal austerity mandates, tens of thousands protested in Europe …
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You Can’t Keep A Good War Down . . . Just Because of Bad News
In Afghanistan, “victory” came early — with the U.S. invasion of 2001. Only then did the trouble begin. Ever since the U.S. occupation managed to …
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Bahrain Youths and Police Clash
Manama, Bahrain (Reuters) — Riot police officers in Bahrain battled youths who threw gasoline bombs on Sunday as violence escalated ahead of the Feb. 14 anniversary of an uprising …
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Four Hundred Fifty Bases and It’s Not Over Yet: The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones and Black Ops
In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. …
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Occupy Has Raised Class Consciousness: Now What?
A protest by visiting and local Occupy Wall Street activists outside City Hall in Northampton, Massacusetts, February 2, 2012. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / The New York Times) …
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Manufacturing Rebounds, but Is it a Renaissance? (2)
Hollidaysburg, Pa. — Don't tell Michael W. McLanahan that manufacturing in the United States is dead. His family-owned, privately held company has made mineral processing and farm equipment since …
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Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase
The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with …