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Timothy Leary on the Wall Street Occupation Movement
In one of his last published writings, Timothy Leary foresaw the current generation of youth making use of the exploding technology of new communication software and devices to challenge …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congressional Commission on War Time Contracting Finds Fraud, but Classifies Report for 20 Years, and More
In today's On the News segment: Oakland police resorted to tear gas and rubber bullets to put down the Occupy Oakland movement, college is getting more and more expensive …
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Former Goldman Sachs Director Charged With Securities Fraud
Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director who surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday morning, was charged with insider trading, the latest development in the …
As Qaddafi is Buried, a Look Back at the Complexities and Contradictions of the Libya Mission
With Muammar Qaddafi now dead in Libya and NATO tentatively winding down its mission there by the end of the month, the Obama administration has claimed another foreign policy …
Junk Food Companies Can’t Have It Both Ways
An apple a day and eating your peas used to lead to good health. Now, according to major food manufacturers, they are “job killers” that will devastate the American …
All Money Trails Lead to Wall Street
How much of our income goes to Wall Street? Anthropologist David Graeber, a specialist in the study of debt, recently set out to find out how much of an …
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Gaddafi Took Knowledge of Where Bodies Were Buried to the Grave
When cable television gets around to retelling the last hours of the life of Moammar Gadhafi, it could be titled “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, or maybe “Why …
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The Maddening Effect of South Carolina’s Proposed Voter ID Law
The voter ID laws that are sweeping the country could possibly keep five million people away from the polls in next year’s election. And voting rights advocates in South …
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Top Fraud Prosecutor: Banking Criminals Can Be Forced to Give Back Their Ill-Gotten Bonuses
Nicholas Taleb said recently that the bankers “hijacked the American economy,” and should not have received $2.2 trillion bonus payouts they did. Taleb lamented: "Unfortunately, …
New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government
With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York …