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The Department of Homeland Security Was Out of Bounds – for Two and a Half Hours
The latest installment in Truthout's FOIA of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) involvement in law enforcement's response to Occupy Wall Street (OWS) shows considerable coordination between various agencies …
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Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster Than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the US
The radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools at Fukushima is far greater and even more problematic than the molten cores. In the …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Big Corporate Money Is Heating Up in Wisconsin, and More
In today's On the News segment: Battle between grassroots organizing and big corporate funding heats up in Wisconsin, new study from the Commonwealth Fund shows why the nation needs comprehensive …
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CUNY Brooklyn College Students Roughed Up by Police for Demanding Fairer Treatment
Every gate at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College had doubled security—no one was getting in without a student ID. That and the rain might have dampened …
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Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC
With the recent publication of additional American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents, new questions are being raised about the source of certain provisions in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's controversial …
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Quebec Students Ignite the Popular Imagination
Vibrant nightly protests over the past week in downtown Montréal, in solidarity with the Quebec student strike, are sparking global attention. As the Quebec-wide strike continues - it has …
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Seventy-Five Thousand People Demand Bank of America End Its Political Donations
Bank of America will be holding its annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 9th. A group of shareholders led by Trillium Asset Management will be introducing a …
Latest Batch of DHS Occupy Documents Contains New Details About Monitoring of Protest Movement
(Photo: Alex Wellerstein / Flickr)The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released another batch of documents Thursday morning in response to Truthout's wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining …
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Exclusive Investigation: The Truth Behind the Official Story of Finding Bin Laden
Posters of 22 fugitives, including Osama bin Laden, line a wall at the FBI headquarters in Washington, October 10, 2001. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times)A few …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Newt Gingrich Will Suspend His Campaign for President, and More
In today's On the News segment: Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign for president, 25 major US corporations on the Fortune 500 list paid their CEOs more money than …