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On the News With Thom Hartmann: NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden Granted a One-Year Asylum in Russia, and More
In today's On the News segment: NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted a one-year asylum in Russia; as climate change increases temperatures around our planet, many species of plants …
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Watchdogs: Regulators Fail to Enforce Pipeline Safety Despite Spills and Deadly Accidents
A watchdog group's data supports accusations that federal regulators are either negligent or too cozy with the energy industry to ensure the public's safety from gas explosions and pipeline …
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Conservative Policies are Driving Americans to Suicide…
The very same austerity policies that Republicans in Washington are constantly pushing on us are the same policies that are driving Americans to kill themselves.
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Edward Snowden’s Father Thanks Putin for Protecting Son
Edward Snowden's father said he was grateful to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government for their u201ccourageu201d and u201cstrengthu201d in protecting his son, who is wanted for leaking …
The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
Small groups of community organizers are shouldering the Herculean task of protecting such neighborhoods abandoned by the federal government.
“We Can’t Survive on $7.25”
Fast food workers in seven U.S. cities are walking off the job this week in what organizers say is the largest strike in the industryu2019s history.
As Edward Snowden Wins One Year Asylum in Russia, NSA Program Tracking Real-Time Internet Use Exposed
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given one year temporary political asylum in Russia. Snowden has reportedly already left the Moscow airport where he has been holed …
Has the British Government Understood Radicalization?
The seventh of July 2013 was the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attack in London.
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FISA Court: Blurring Lines, Consolidating Tyranny
As the Obama Administration increases its arsenal of surveillance and secret policing tools it grounds the legality of their use at home and abroad on classified FISA court rulings.
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The Trouble with Suspicion and Racial Profiling
u2018These assholes. They always get away.u2019 These were some of George Zimmermanu2019s last words before he decided-against the advice of a police dispatcher- to follow Trayvon Martin because he …