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Police Interventions Fire Up Occupy Protesters; Big Rallies Planned Thursday
Washington - After getting pepper-sprayed Tuesday night in downtown Seattle, 84-year-old Dorli Rainey of the Occupy Seattle movement felt fired up, ready for more protesting. And like …
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Occupy Movement Prepares for Mass Day of Action in Defiance of Crackdowns
(Photo: Timothy Krause / Flickr) Thursday, November 17, marks the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and an international day of nonviolent direct action has been called …
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A Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square Is Reported
A man set himself on fire in China’s heavily policed Tiananmen Square last month, according a report in The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, in the first known case of …
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The Agora at Liberty Square
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement celebrate one month of occupying Zuccotti Park in New York, on Oct. 17, 2011. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times) …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Court Rules in Favor of the One Percent, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Oklahoma Earthquakes and the Wages of Fracking
When towns to the east of Oklahoma City jiggled over the weekend with two of the state’s strongest-ever earthquakes, some people asked an obvious question: Does the recent expansion …
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Insurance Mandate May Be Health Bill’s Undoing
Washington - As Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton over health care during the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008, he was adamant about one thing: Americans, he insisted, should …
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Karl Rove Flips Out at Protesters: “Who Gave You the Right to Occupy America?“
Last night, former Bush official Karl Rove appeared at Johns Hopkins University to speak as a part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Rove soon discovered that he …
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House GOP Classifies Pizza as a Vegetable
Earlier this year, the USDA made an attempt to bolster the nutrition guidelines for the federal school lunch program. Under the new guidelines, for instance, school lunches would be …
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Half of Vets Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Need Medical Attention
(Photo: RunItsTheFuz / Flickr) More than half of America's former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with medical and mental problems that need treatment, according …