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Americans’ Personal Data Shared With CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe
US agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no …
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How Can the States Provide Fourth Amendment Protection Against the NSA?
States have the authority to defy federal NSA surveillance policy, based on anticommandeering doctrine, and are being urged to do so by the civil liberties community.
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What Do We Treasure? A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger spoke at the opening of the exhibition
How Big Money and Big Media Undermine Democracy
This past Tuesday, special interests pumped big money into promoting or tearing down candidates and ballot initiatives in elections across the country.
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The Confidence Fairy and Gnome, Debunked
Paul Krugman: Count me in as someone who believes that macroeconomics - at least of the Keynesian variety - has actually worked pretty well these past five years.
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India’s GOP Voiceless in the 2014 Elections
India's Grand Old Party is not naming its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections, nor touting its very real accomplishments while in power. Why?
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IRS Can Go After People Who Stash Fortunes Overseas, and More
In today’s On the News segment: The Southern District Court of New York says the IRS can go after people who stash fortunes overseas; Japanese officials want to lower the cost …
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A Trail of Tears: How Veterans Return From America’s Wars
An excerpt from Ann Jones's new book, ‘They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars - The Untold Story.’
Chris Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed State’s Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent
Christopher Hedges, on the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond, says there will be no free press without figures like Hammond and Manning
Thom Hartmann on “The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America – and What We Can Do to Stop It”
Could the US face another economic collapse? Writer and broadcaster Thom Hartmann looks back at past financial crises and comes to a startling conclusion.