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Neo-Nazi Party Plots Rise as First Effort to Form New Greek Government Fails
Athens - Election advertisements for Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party called for “taking the dirt out of the country,” “cleaning up Athens” and planting landmines along the borders to …
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Corruption Accounts for as Much As 14 Dollars Out of Every Tank of Gas
(Photo: jcarlosn)You pay a hidden premium every time they fill up your gas tank. The prices are high at the gas station, but part of the price you pay …
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Nuns Feed the Poor
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What We Look Like: A Comic About Women in Media
“What We Look Like,” with Anne Elizabeth Moore and Robyn Chapman, is a follow-up to “Ladydrawer's” look at women's participation in the labor force. This time, we look at …
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Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets
Natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Helen Slottje / shaleshock.org) The “Rogers” family signed a surface-use agreement with a fracking company in 2009 to close their 300-acre dairy …
American Autumn: An Occudoc
Shot on the frontlines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012 by activist, …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Japan Shuts Down Its Last Nuclear Reactor to Widespread Public Celebration, and More
In today's On the News segment: Japan shut down its last nuclear reactor Saturday to widespread public celebration, GOP war on women renders widest gender gap in US voters' …
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The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb
Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S. More than a year after the triple …
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Corporations Win in Battle Against Investment Regulation
In a world where governments are increasingly subservient to global finance capital, multinationals are gaining ground in the fight against state regulations that aim to protect the environment, public …
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Food Stamp Foolishness
Maybe you thought the lowest possible point of Republican miserliness was reached when Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Agriculture proposed that ketchup be counted as a vegetable in the school …