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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Touts Jobs Over Austerity at G8 in Maryland, and More
In today's On the News segment: Provision buried in the latest defense authorization bill would overturn ban on government propaganda against American citizens, Vermont becomes first state to ban …
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Investor Kicked Out, WellPoint Refuses Further Disclosure of Toxic Political Spending
WellPoint executives hemmed and hawed at questions pertaining to political spending at Wednesday’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Health plan members and union leaders, who represent members with WellPoint health insurance, …
From Pride to Shame: Vets Return Their Medals
The transition from pride to shame was a common theme among the more than forty veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who publicly hurled their medals in …
In Chicago, Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Put NATO’s Endless War on Trial
Veterans hold court during the NATO demonstrations in Chicago, May 20, 2012. (Photo: peoplesworld) Truthout has been covering the antiwar movement closely for more than ten years. Click here …
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The Six Lessons of the Sixth of May
Translated Thursday, 10 May 2012, by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Bill Scoble. Rejection of Sarkozysm, failure of the swerve to the right by the UMP [i], its sanction by …
Wisconsin’s Billionaires Make a Sacrifice?
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay. Something has to give, say people backing Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker. And that something just …
Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where Is the Task Force?
It was almost four years ago that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paul Paulson and then New York Fed Bank President Timothy Geithner ran to …
Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice
Songs of social protest — music and the quest for justice — have long been intertwined, and the troubadours of troubling times — Guthrie, Seeger, Baez, Dylan, and Springsteen …
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Meet the Group Trying to Use Citizens United to Kill Montana’s Ban on Corporate Spending in Elections
Last week, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) submitted an amicus brief “ urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand Montana’s century-old ban on corporate money in political campaigns despite …
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More NATO Summit Activists Charged; Five Linked by Two Informants
Thousands protested in the streets of downtown Chicago on Sunday May 20 while the NATO Summit unfolded at McCormick Place. With most eyes on that, another key development flew …