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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Before Wildfires, Texas Gov. Rick Perry Cut Firefighter Program by 75 Percent, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Nepal’s Women Farmers Discard Imported Hybrid Seeds and Husband Local Varieties in Co-Op Seed Banks
Kathmandu - Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal’s women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks. …
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Qaddafi Loyalists Fled to Niger by Convoy, US Affirms
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya, and Washington— More than a dozen high-ranking loyalists of Moammar Kadafi made a desert getaway into neighboring Niger, US officials said Tuesday, but …
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Plan Would Keep Small Force in Iraq Past Deadline
Washington — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year’s …
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What Comes Next for the Tar Sands Action
Dear friends— Here’s the battle plan we promised—a few hours late, because it’s been a big job wrapping up phase one of this campaign. By …
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Obama Transition Team Member Explains Why Administration Chose Not to Prosecute Torture
If you can think back all the way to January 2009, back when wars were ending, Guantanamo was closing, the Pentagon was getting oversight, employees were going to have …
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Inside the Koch Brothers’ 2011 Summer Seminar: Part 1
David H. Koch, one of the billionaire brothers who runs Koch Industries, at the Lincoln Center in New York, in this July 9, 2008 file photo. (Photo: Robert Caplin …
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How Prisons Imperil Black Voting Power in Post-Katrina Louisiana (2)
New Orleans - Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Sometimes called “The Farm” because of its plantation-like set-up, it …
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Malawian Government Becomes a One-Man Show
Lilongwe - For the last two weeks, Malawi’s president has been running the country’s 22 ministries on his own after firing his entire cabinet. But political and economic analysts …
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Poll Tracks Shifts in Public Attitudes Since 9/11
Washington - In the first of what is likely to be a tidal wave of polling in the run-up to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New …