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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Judgment Day in Wisconsin, and More
In today's On the News segment: Investors brace themselves for another turbulent day on Wall Street, violent riots continued for the third straight day across London and a number …
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We Are Wisconsin, and We’re Already Winners
This morning Wisconsin voters will stream to the polls in a historic recall election that pits defenders of working people against six incumbents who backed a right-wing legislative assault …
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Interior Secretary Tells Alaskans Obama Backs Drilling
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar came to Anchorage on Monday and said the Obama administration supports more oil drilling in Alaska, potentially including offshore Arctic development. Salazar joined …
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Barbara Ehrenreich: On Turning Poverty Into an American Crime
I completed the manuscript for “Nickel and Dimed” in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity. Technology innovators and venture capitalists were acquiring sudden fortunes, buying up McMansions like the …
Truthout Contributor Jeffrey Kaye Discusses Guantanamo Water Torture and Rumsfeld’s Denials
A new report published by Truthout last week suggests that there may be much more to interrogation techniques and where they were used. This includes a little known testimony …
Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights
(Image: JR / Truthout) The statistic in this chapter’s epigraph is sobering indeed. It says corporations sought protection under the Fourteenth Amendment a hundred times more often …
Stepping Out of Afghanistan’s Shadows
Like rotating blades hitting the dirt, propaganda spin from Afghanistan's traumatic Chinook crash has destructively spiraled into US policy. The 30 US troops inside the helicopter, presumably a Special …
The Market Has Spoken: Austerity Is Bad for Business
The New York Stock Exchange at closing on August 8, 2011. Wall Street stocks plummeted on Monday as skittish investors, already concerned about the economy, struggled to work out …
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Verizon Strike: As Billions Roll in, Workers Walk Out
At Verizon locations throughout the Northeast, 45,000 workers started walking picket lines Sunday. Their strike, brought on by a flood of concession demands the Communications Workers say …
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Britain Recalls Parliament as Unrest Spreads
London - Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Tuesday to flood the streets of London with 10,000 extra police officers and said Parliament would be recalled in emergency session …