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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama’s New Budget Raises Taxes on Wealthy, Cuts Social Programs, and More
In today's On the News segment: Obama unveils his 2013 budget today, Athens is on fire after latest round of brutal austerity mandates, tens of thousands protested in Europe …
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You Can’t Keep A Good War Down . . . Just Because of Bad News
In Afghanistan, “victory” came early — with the U.S. invasion of 2001. Only then did the trouble begin. Ever since the U.S. occupation managed to …
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Bahrain Youths and Police Clash
Manama, Bahrain (Reuters) — Riot police officers in Bahrain battled youths who threw gasoline bombs on Sunday as violence escalated ahead of the Feb. 14 anniversary of an uprising …
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Four Hundred Fifty Bases and It’s Not Over Yet: The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones and Black Ops
In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. …
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Occupy Has Raised Class Consciousness: Now What?
A protest by visiting and local Occupy Wall Street activists outside City Hall in Northampton, Massacusetts, February 2, 2012. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / The New York Times) …
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Manufacturing Rebounds, but Is it a Renaissance? (2)
Hollidaysburg, Pa. — Don't tell Michael W. McLanahan that manufacturing in the United States is dead. His family-owned, privately held company has made mineral processing and farm equipment since …
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Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase
The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with …
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Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It
Ki Gulbranson, who counts on an earned income tax credit and has signed up his children for free meals at school, at his logo apparel shop in downtown Lindstrom, …
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Bishops Reject White House’s New Plan on Contraception
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have rejected a compromise on birth control coverage that President Obama offered on Friday and said they would continue to fight the president’s plan …
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Want an Aisle Seat? Not for $2,000, Ralph Nader Tells American Airlines
Washington - As if bankrupt American Airlines didn't have enough problems, along comes consumer advocate Ralph Nader — who's really steamed that for a flight Saturday to Dallas/Fort Worth …