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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Last Year Was the Hottest Year on Record, and More
In today's On the News segment: According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, 2014 was hotter than any other year in their 120 years of record keeping, and more.
High Technology, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Hazardous Communication Tools
Though the dangers of high technology are numerous, responses can be made to mitigate their impacts.
Voters Not Congress Should Decide TPP Trade Pact
Few Americans have a deep understanding of the TPP (Trans Pacific Pact) terms. This includes most members of the House of Representatives and the US Senate.
Reproductive Sovereignty or Bust!
Unless there are many wider and deeper changes in our society, peer women's health education would not be the choice of the majority.
51 Former State Attorneys General Push for Reasonable Prisoner Phone Rates in Letter to FCC
The petition and the letter submitted today by the bipartisan group of former attorneys general argue that high phone rates are passed on to the consumers who pay for …
Dude, Where’s My Peace Dividend?
The war hawks and politicians in Washington DC will tell you it is being reinvested to defeat terror and secure American interests abroad; that the elusive dividend payment is …
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On Racism and Selective Commemoration
If you average out the murder rate in Chicago last year, it breaks down to about one murder every nineteen hours. Seventeen of those people were killed by our …
Citizen Journalists: Confronting Fears and Fables
Alongside our political fears are the delusional fables of American freedom which legacy media, in all its forms, has failed to confront.
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Haiti’s Promised Rebuilding Unrealized as Haitians Challenge Authoritarian Rule
They promised to “build” the country “back better.” The world was aghast at the poverty in Haiti revealed by the massive news coverage of the earthquake.
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Millennial Perspective: Our Failing Infrastructure and the Highway Trust Fund
Millennials are an interconnected generation, and travel and mobility are important to us.