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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Cayman Islands Have Agreed to Make it More Difficult for the Rich to Evade Taxes, and More
The bankers, billionaires, and wealthy elite are losing one of their favorite offshore tax havens.
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Will Washington, D.C. Be Named “Reaganville?”
Itu2019s easier to abolish women and to send illegal immigrants to the moon than it is to improve our nation, at least for Republicans.
When I Sued the FBI – and Won
During the last three months, we have been learning a great deal about massive and continuing wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of hundreds of millions of Americans …
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Two Easy Ways for Congress to Raise its Public Approval Rating
There are two easy steps our Senators and Representatives can take now that will dramatically improve the public approval rating of the United States Congress.
Landmark Decision: Judge Rules NYPD Stop and Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Departmentu2019s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional.
Municipal Workers in Bankrupt Cities Facing Financial Nightmare
An organized effort in the 1970s by what then was the extreme right wing has succeeded in making hatred of all things government, including government workers, a mainstream view.
Teenagers in Space: Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and How a Tale of American Triumphalism Was Returned to the Child’s World (Part 2)
In the new war play universe, you did need a scorecard to tell the players apart.
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Screaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial
The prosecution focused, with much less success I think, on depicting Manning as an unlikable person. Should unlikable people get heavier sentences?
Hundreds Dead as Egyptian Forces Commit 3rd Mass Killing of Pro-Morsi Demonstrators
Dozens of people have been reportedly killed in raids on two pro-Morsi encampments in Cairo.
Norman Solomon: The Nobel Peace Prize Needs Manning
Solomon discusses his delivery of 100,000 signatures to the Nobel Committee urging that the award go to Manning.