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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans in Congress Work to Strip Wall Street Reform, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Billionare Koch Responds to Buffet, Refuses Call for Shared Sacrifice
America’s current tax system forces people making $50,000 a year to pay a higher rate than hedge fund managers making $2.4 million an hour. Warren Buffett penned an op-ed …
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Lurking Dangers to the Arab Quest for Freedom and Reform
Arab revolutions are currently facing real dangers, which vacillate between lack of prioritisation, stagnation and foreign intervention. In Egypt, there have been deliberate attempts to divide the …
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Myopic Extremists Take the Lead – An Analysis
The electromagnetic spectrum is a window on the real world in all its vast variety. In wavelength it ranges from 0.1 nanometers for gamma rays to long wave infrared …
NATO’s “Conspiracy” Against the Libyan Revolution
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot— the aptly named neoconservative author and military historian known for his support for “democracy promotion” …
Standard & Poor’s and the Bilderbergers: All Part of the Plan?
A monitor tracks stocks on the trading room floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 8, 2011. (Photo: Benjamin Norman / The New York Times) …
How Disney Instills Greed and Consumerism – Starting at Three Months
It doesn't matter how enjoyable the products - there is something bigger beneath the family-friendly exterior.
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Assad Says He Rejects West’s Calls to Resign
Beirut, Lebanon - President Bashar al-Assad of Syria dismissed American and European calls for him to step down as “meaningless” on Sunday, and he declared that Syria’s ailing economy …
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Israeli Politicians Call for Major Military Action in Gaza
Reporting from Jerusalem - As Palestinian militants tried to forge a tentative cease-fire agreement with Israel on Sunday, pressure was building on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to retaliate …
Austerity Politics Descends on US States
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, talks with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) prior to President Barack Obama's remarks on the economy at a General Electric plant in Schenectady, …