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Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Lift the Payroll Tax Cap, Ensuring Full Social Security Funding for Nearly 75 Years (2)
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a featured speaker at the United Steel Workers 2011 conference in Las Vegas. Sanders focused much of his speech on …
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We Need to Get Active to Recover the Economy and Middle Class
They've got the money but we’ve got the numbers. The billionaires and the giant corporations are making a greed-grab for what's left of our standard of living, even our …
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Rights Commission Rebukes US on Domestic Violence
Washington - In a groundbreaking decision that affirms domestic violence as an international human rights issue, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled that the US should …
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New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Promote Genetically Engineered Crops Worldwide
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: Peter Blanchard, Wikileaks) Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the …
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Who – and What – Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid?
The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, and more prone to be pawns in complicated games that affect the public …
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US May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgages
The Obama administration is considering further actions to strengthen the housing market, but the bar is high: plans must help a broad swath of homeowners, stimulate the economy and …
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From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area Uninhabitable Due to Radiation
The worst nuclear disaster to strike Japan since a single bomb fell over Nagasaki in 1945 occurred in the spring of 2011 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Millionaires and Billionaires in France ask for a Tax Increase, and More
In today's On the News segment: French government introduced a new debt reduction package that includes a 3 percent income tax increase on people making more than $720,000 a …
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NATO Joins Hunt for Qaddafi
Tripoli, Libya - NATO was reported on Thursday to be providing significant support in the hunt for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as rebels traded fire with their adversaries in Tripoli …
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Army Reservist Told He’s Barred From Re-Enlistment for Speaking to Truthout About Guantanamo
Pfc. Albert Melise was accused by the US Army of leaking classified information to Truthout during an interview about Guantanamo. (Photo courtesy of Albert Melise) The US …