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Wall Street Donated $41 Million to Supercommittee Members
(Photo: independentyouth; Edited: JR / Truthout) Wall Street has given $41 million in campaign contributions to the members of the Congressional “supercommittee” charged with finding $1.5 trillion …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Have the Socialists, Communists and Greens Taken Over France?
In today's On the News segment: Congressional Republicans took a vacation in the middle of the spending/shutdown battle, Florida Gov. Rick Scott brags about killing jobs, police used violence …
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A Campaign Finance Ruling Turned to Labor’s Advantage
Washington — Labor unions are seizing on last year’s landmark Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics, developing ambitious plans to influence nonunion households …
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Saudi Monarch Grants Women Right to Vote
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Sunday granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a …
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Tomatoes of Wrath
About 60 farmworkers line up to board a bus from Immokalee, Florida, on March 26, 2011, to begin a five-city tour from Boston to Tampa, stopping in each city …
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Residents Alarmed by Proposal to Treat Fracking Waste in Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls, New York - With an end to New York's statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing in sight, residents of Niagara Falls were alarmed to learn that wastewater from …
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In Arizona, Complaints That an Accent Can Hinder a Teacher’s Career
Phoenix - When Guadalupe V. Aguayo puts her hand to her heart, faces the American flag in the corner of her classroom and leads her second-graders in the Pledge …
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Working Class Europeans Hit the Streets
Washington - Headlines this week have been saturated with protests against unaffordable food, unfair taxes and unsustainable austerity measures, with one distinct difference setting these stories apart from countless …
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Local Resistance to Corporate Personhood Wages Crucial, if Symbolic, Battle
Move to Amend protestors demonstrating in Washington DC, January 21, 2011. (Photo: takomabibelot) In the 2010 US Supreme Court case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the …
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As Palestinians Push to Restart Negotiations, US Quietly Supplies Israel With Bunker-Busting Bombs
A bunker-busting bomb, the GBU-24 Paveway III missile, hits the ground in these photos of a military test. (Photo: James Efrem Ringold) Washington - The Obama administration …