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Two Major Lawsuits Filed Against ExxonMobil for Arkansas Tar Sands Spill
Both suits clarify that ExxonMobil dilbit has contaminated Lake Conway, the largest man-made lake in the US.
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Punch Line
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Ecuador’s New Communications Law: A Democratic Model?
The law guarantees for diversity and plurality and the need to regulate the media in the public interest.
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The High Road to 21st Century Economic Success
On the high road to the future, we would use government institutions to put people to work in support of the common good.
Economic Update: Capitalism’s Social Costs
Updates on Obamacare's
Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton on How Hunger Hurts Everyone
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Report Predicts Green Energy Will Beat Out Natural Gas in Five Years, and More
In today's On the News segment: California's same-sex couples told they will have to wait 25 days to get married, and more.
Is Obama’s Trip to Africa About Investment or the Extraction of African Resources?
Africa Action board chair and foreign policy expert Emira Woods says Obama administration needs a new approach to trade and investment and should move away from policies that favor …
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Must Pay for Its Sins
The deaths on Sunday of 19 wildfire fighters in Arizona is just the latest example of the overwhelming negative externalities associated with this nationu2019s addiction to fossil fuels.
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Sadism as Politics: Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Anti-Abortion Politics and Kicking the Poor
The common denominator in redistricting, austerity policies, voter restriction policies, criminal justice and anti-abortion policies is the privileged (pathological) need to maintain power and control.