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Home Heating Costs Expected to Rise This Winter Despite Gas Fracking Boom
The United States is poised to boost natural gas exports while the most vulnerable Americans struggle to pay their heating bills and federal financial assistance dwindles.
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The Powerful Pornography of the Gun Fetish
Two gun rights groups scheduled an event called “Guns Save Lives Day” for the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre.
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How America Could Be the Happiest Country on Earth
And the happiest country in the world is ... Denmark!
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Groups Want Congress to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and More
A coalition of public interest groups wants Congress to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership, and more.
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Here and Now, the Lies Stop
The Great Shutdown/Default Debacle of 2013 is thankfully dwindling in the rearview mirror, but look sharp! Signpost dead ahead: The Great Shutdown/Default Debacle of 2014 is just around the …
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McOutrage: Poverty Wages for Workers, Corporate Jet for Execs
McDonald's has purchased for the use of its executives a Bombardier Challenger 605, a 12-seat plane that goes for between $27 million and $35 million.
Always and Everywhere: The New York Times and the Enduring “Threat” of Isolationism
The United States has been at war for well over a decade now, with US attacks and excursions in distant lands having become as commonplace as floods and forest …
“How Do You Justify Killing a Grandmother?” Amnesty Says US Drone Strikes May Be War Crimes
Amnesty International has released a major new report on how US drone strikes kill civilians in Pakistan, where it says some deaths may amount to war crimes.
Giving Grassroots Leaders a Voice
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Exec. Editor of Black Agenda Report, talks about helping create black radio news. He says that news media creates leaders …
“Cash for Kids”: Firms Behind Juvenile Prison Bribes Reach $2.5 Million Settlement in Civil Suit
Judges took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit youth jails.