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At AFL-CIO Convention, Leaders Ask: What Direction for Labor?
Without the commitment to build a social movement, all the innovative ideas coming out of the AFL-CIO convention may come to little, if anything.
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The Environmental Consequences of Privatizing Mexico’s Oil
Those Americans who have become so concerned about fracking or oil drilling or climate change need to lift their eyes beyond the confines of their own local and national …
The President’s Speech Reveals He Has Never Seen War
War is organized insanity. And, frankly, it's often not even that organized.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Have Come Up With Their Latest Plan to Hold Our Economy Hostage, and More
In today's On the News segment: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Republicans will not raise the debt ceiling unless President Obama delays Obamacare for another year; researchers at …
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How Verizon’s Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Rules Could Silence Minority Voices
Some believe big internet service providers are trying to diminish the black community's ability to be visible online.
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Noam Chomsky: Instead of “Illegal” Threat to Syria, US Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations
We get reaction to Obama's speech from world-renowned political dissident and linguist, MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky.
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Rania Masri and Chris Hedges on Obama’s Syria Address
Scholar Rania Masri and writer Chris Hedges respond to President Obama's major Syria address.
Twelve Years Post 9/11, Islamophobia Still Runs High
Deepa Kumar: Political elite have built Islamaphobia in US foreign policy to justify imperialistic ambitions.
LEAKED: The Internet Must Go
In 2012, I was dispatched to help the big ISPs to figure out how to sell their vision for a “faster,” "cleaner" internet. Six months later I produced this …
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Thanks, an Apology, and a Request: A Diplomat’s Farewell
I now ask the people of Japan for help. My country is no longer the country I once knew, a country moving at least in the direction of providing …