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Mexico: Rural Women Organize to Weather Multiple Crises
Tlaxcala - Adelaida Avelino, 60, is still devastated by the loss of her corn and wheat harvest, which were destroyed by the freeze that hit the Mexican state of …
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Blaring Impunity: Unrelenting Assassinations of Honduran Journalists, the Government Remains All but Quiescent
Summary As always, but with an unusual quota of aggression since 2010, freedom of speech and the personal security of Honduran journalists are under permanent attack from …
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Biofuels, Speculators Driving Food Price Surges
Washington - A new report on global hunger pinpoints factors at the heart of spikes in food prices it says are exacerbating the unfolding food crisis in the Horn …
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A Woman’s Rise to Power: Struggle and Success
Saudi Arabia’s decision to allow women to vote has been hailed as a major step forward—very few nations still allow such overt discrimination. But there are still fewer …
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Tunisia: Social Media Lift the Silence
Tunis - After 23 years of enforced silence, media professionals and artists in Tunisia are enjoying a period in which their freedom of expression is being respected for the …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Poll Shows 53 Percent of Republicans Support Raising Taxes on the Wealthy, and More
In today's On the News segment: New poll shows that two-thirds of Americans - and even 53 percent of Republicans - support raising taxes on the wealthy, the 30-year …
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House Amendment to Reverse Citizens United Ruling Meets With Mixed Support
In the wake of the landmark Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which upheld that corporations were “persons” and that their deep-pocket political expenditures were a …
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Community Groups, Labor and ‘Occupy Chicago’ Protest Mortgage Bankers Association, Seven Thousand Strong
Protesters gather for the Occupy Chicago General Assembly. Click to view larger. (Photo: Mario Garcia-Baeza) When the Mortgage Bankers Association decided to hold their annual conference in …
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Common Cents: Campaign Finance Reform Gets Congressional Boost
Yesterday on the Dylan Ratigan Show, Rep. Donna Edwards spoke at length about her recently introduced constitutional amendment that would restore to Congress and the states the authority to …
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Why Do These Koch Industries Neighbors Have Cancer?
Our ongoing Koch Brothers Exposed video investigation has discovered something so tragic it will haunt Charles and David Koch for years to come. Is a Koch Industries …