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Michael Moore and Cornel West on Occupy Wall Street, Iraq and the Progressive Discontent Obama Faces in 2012 Vote
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Government Could Hide Existence of Records Under FOIA Rule Proposal
A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even …
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The Network of Global Corporate Control
A Few Companies Have Power Over Most of the Real Economy The idea that the few dominate the many will not come as news to those …
“Throw Them Out With the Trash”: Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. Large numbers of …
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The Invisible Wounds of War
As a former Marine Corps Officer, Vietnam veteran, and philosopher with a focus in social and political theory and ethics, I have spent the last 40 years of my …
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Legal Challenge Seeking George W. Bush’s Arrest During British Columbia Visit Fails
George W. Bush's visit to Surrey, B.C., on Thursday was met with a protest and an unsuccessful courtroom bid to have him detained for torture during his presidency. …
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America Is a Fascist State Because It Is Racist
“The fertilizers relied upon by the fascists are fear, hate, prejudice, military power and deceit.”
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama to Issue One Executive Order a Week to Boost Economy, and More
In today's On the News segment: A Florida high school teacher was slapped with fines for helping students register to vote, Rick Perry has gone birther, a homemade chemical …
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New Hampshire Poll Shows Both Sides of the Aisle Agree on Something
Today the business leaders of the Committee for Economic Development and the bipartisan Americans for Campaign Reform released a new poll showing that almost 2/3 of likely Republican Primary …
Spotlight G20: Speeding From Hopeful to Hopeless
Remember the WTO – the institution that we loved to hate? We haven’t been hearing much from or about the institution since its 2003 meeting in Cancun Mexico. That …