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Blue Moon Over Congress: Opening to Push for Diplomacy with Iran
A candidate in Iran's presidential race suggested improving relations with West. Then, he won.
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The Billionaires’ War Against Public Education
‘Go Public’ is a welcome antidote to the bleak and misleading message of ‘Waiting for Superman.’
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DOJ Put DeChristopher in Federal Prison for Defying Big Energy
Directors Beth and George Gage record DeChristopher's journey from an act of civil disobedience to incarceration.
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Danny Troxell
‘Sadly, this institution wants to break as many ties and bonds to family and community as it can,’ writes Danny Troxell.
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: George Ruiz
Suffering from severe medical problems, 71-year-old George Ruiz is challenging long-term solitary confinement.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: North Carolina Citizens Are Protesting Out-of-Control Republicans, and More
Over the last two months, activists and civil leaders have been protesting extreme Right-wing policies in North Carolina; Senate Democrats tried to restore lower student loan interest rates, but …
Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers
Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least twenty-two and a half hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are …
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The Koch Brothers Are Waging War Against the Poor
Taking wage policy advice from Charles Koch is like taking advice on how to run a neighborhood watch program from George Zimmerman.
Indignation Across Europe At Revelations of US Spying on Its Citizens
Former British intelligence whistleblower Annie Machon: Europeans angry at spying revelations, but laws protect spy agencies from accountability.
Senate Set to Confirm New FBI Head Who OK’d Waterboarding, Defends Mass Spying, Indefinite Detention
At his confirmation hearing to head the FBI, former Bush administration Deputy Attorney General James Comey refused to criticize the broad, ongoing collection of the phone records of Americans …