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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Arizona Passes a Law to Establish Its Own Militia, and More
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
Reforming a Recalcitrant Military
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In his third State of the Union address, President Obama opened and closed with iconic praise for the military. Yet his script, …
Noam Chomsky: The Imperial Way
In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere.
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Leak Reveals How Big Business Funds Climate-Change Deniers
The climate-change-denying think tank The Heartland Institute pays monthly stipends to vocal global warming skeptics, received $200,000 from the Charles G. Koch Foundation in 2011 and received a total …
Could Lieberman Bill Block War-Averting Diplomacy With Iran?
There's no question that some people in Washington would very much like for the US to have a policy toward Iran, the endgame of which is war or externally …
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Food, Justice and Sustainability
In July, 2011, Michelle Obama rolled out a plan to bring fresh, healthy to low income communities across the United States. The plan is to partner with major food …
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The Secret, Corporate-Funded Plan to Teach Children That Climate Change is a Hoax
Internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green reveal that the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank funded by the Koch brothers, Microsoft, and other top corporations, is planning to develop …
Why Did Petraeus Fire the Auditor Charged With Stopping Flow of Pentagon Funds to Taliban?
The story which reared its head then dropped off the radar in summer of 2010 is still alive: that the major source of funding for the Taliban is likely …
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Commercial Banks Spent Record $62 Million on Lobbying in 2011
Commercial banks spent nearly $62 million last year on lobbying, another record total for an industry that has become one of the most active voices in the political arena. …
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The Greek Debt Crisis as Harbinger of Things to Come
The crisis in Greece is not a ‘sovereign, or government, debt’ crisis. That’s the surface appearance of the problem. The below the surface struggle is about how bankers, bondholders …