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Predators on the Border, Hawks Across the Border and a Homeland of Drones
Drones are proliferating. First, the Pentagon joined with military contractors to breed fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as airborne drones are formally called. Although major new drone species …
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Documents Detail Widespread Confusion on DHS Involvement in Surveillance, Crackdown on Occupy
What kind of Occupy activity is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allowed to place surveillance on? Was the agency part of the November 2011 crackdown on Occupy movement? …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Announces Fast-Track Approval of Keystone Pipeline Segment, and More
In today's On the News segment: Only five banks control more than half of all the industry's assets, President Obama announced the fast-track approval of the southern leg for the …
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ALEC Ratified NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin’s Killer
A Florida law that may protect the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February is the template for an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “model bill” …
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The Charts That Prove Obama Doesn’t Set Gas Prices
America produces 200 times as much oil as Germany, but our gas prices rise and fall in tandem (we pay far lower gas taxes). Source: Energy Information Administration and …
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Bradley Manning Prosecution Incurably Infected by Government Misconduct
Last week I spent two days in court for a pretrial motions hearing in the court martial of Bradley Manning, the private accused of leaking documents to WikiLeaks that …
After Bales’ Arrest, Military Tried to Delete Him from Web
Washington - Besides waiting nearly a week before identifying the Army staff sergeant who's accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers, the U.S. military scrubbed its websites of references to …
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Michael Harrington and “The Other America”: Their Legacy 50 Years Later
Renowned historians, sociologists and activists including William Julius Wilson, Maurice Isserman, Peter Dreier, David O’Brien, Bruce Western, Annette Lareau and others will speak at a two-day conference on poverty …
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Calls Grow for Leader of Komen to Step Down
Nancy G. Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. (Photo: kostia) Calls for the resignation of Nancy G. Brinker, the founder and chief executive of Susan G. …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Health Insurance Companies Are Charging Women an Extra Billion Dollars Annually, and More
In today's On the News segment: Health insurance companies are charging women in America an extra billion dollars annually, the backlash against Paul Ryan’s radical budget plan continues, the …