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How the US Government, Banks, Prison-Industrial Complex, Corrupt Officials, Businesses, Law Enforcement, Racists and the CIA Profit From Illegal Drugs
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporate Oligarchy Trumps the Public Option, and More
Thom Hartmann talks the supreme court's recent decision (or lack thereof), European austerity, Fast and Furious documents scandal, and more.
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NATO 3 Indictment Shows Increased Terrorism Charges
The case of the missing indictment for the three NATO protesters charged with terrorism has been solved by the group's lawyers, who discovered the documents at the Cook County …
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Senate Rejects Resolution to Repeal EPA’s Air Pollution Standards
The Senate voted 46-53 on Wednesday to reject a resolution to repeal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards aimed at reducing the amount of toxic pollution emitted from coal burning …
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Hope Dies at Guantanamo
Of the 800 men and boys held at Guantanamo since 2002, 169 remain. Of those prisoners, 87 have had their release approved by military review boards established during the …
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Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
When it comes to international energy politics, it is not Bush but his vice president, Dick Cheney, who has been providing the role model for President Obama.
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Paul Krugman | Welcome to the 1930s
Financial powers, at home and abroad, are sinking us into the flawed economic ideals of the 1930s.
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The World’s 99% Knows Capitalism Is Failing and Believes That Change Is Possible
But to the young indignados and protestors elsewhere in the world, capitalism is failing to produce what was promised, but is delivering on what was not promised - inequality, …