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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 …
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An Anniversary You’re Forced to Remember
Friday, April 27, marked the anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that you are probably unaware of, but will be forced to live with if you end up in …
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Activists Occupy the Justice Department to Demand an End to Racist Mass Incarceration
On Tuesday, April 24, several hundred activists from around the country gathered outside the Justice Department (DOJ) in Washington, DC, to call for an end to mass incarceration. The …
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Romney Joined Bush-Cheney Smear Campaign on John Kerry’s National Security Record in 2004
Mitt Romney doesn’t like it that President Obama’s re-election campaign in a new video decided to tout the president’s decision to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden …
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Scams and Frauds (Plus George W. Bush and Michelle Rhee) at Upcoming Subprime College Conference in Vegas
Republic Report previously reported that former President George W. Bush will be speaking at the annual meeting of APSCU, the leading association of for-profit colleges, on June 22 at the Mandalay Bay …
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AT&T, Feds Neglect Low-Price Mandate Designed to Help Schools
At the dawn of the Internet era, Congress set out to avert a digital divide between rich and poor students. In a landmark bill, lawmakers required the nation’s phone …
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Mitch McConnell and the Chamber of Commerce Tell the Supreme Court to Double Down on Citizens United
Mitch McConnell. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr)The Supreme Court is currently considering whether to hear a case that will enable it to correct its error in Citizens United and …
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In Afghanistan, Obama Says Wars of 9/11 Nearing an End
President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai during the signing of a partnership agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / …