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Waffling AARP: Medicare, Social Security at Risk
Over the past two months, AARP has been all over the map on cuts to Social Security and Medicare. For the 37 million members of AARP, including the more …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Millionaires and Billionaires in France ask for a Tax Increase, and More
In today's On the News segment: French government introduced a new debt reduction package that includes a 3 percent income tax increase on people making more than $720,000 a …
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Everything Wrong With Our Country’s Sex Ed Debate, in One Infuriating Video (2)
It's rare when a three-minute conversation can reveal so much about our culture. In this clip, a Texas Tribune reporter asks Texas governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry why …
Memo to the Media: the US Spends Six Times More on Military Than China
The Defense Department has just released its annual assessment of China’s military capabilities and development to Congress. The report is being covered in much of the media as a …
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The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
Events in Libya and Syria have again brought to the forefront the question of armed humanitarian intervention or the “responsibility to protect.” Our hearts all go out …
Wave of Illegal, Senseless and Violent Evictions Swells in Port-au-Prince
Mathias O is 34 years old. He is one of about 600,000 people still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He lives with his wife and her …
Arrested at the White House: Acting as a Living Tribute to Martin Luther King
Writer and climate activist Bill McKibben was among several dozen arrested outside the White House on August 20 at the start of more than two weeks of planned demonstrations …
Quality “Time Served” for the Climate
Since the start of Saturday’s Tar Sands Action in Washington DC, 275 people have been arrested in front of the White House—with nearly 2,000 more expected to follow—as part …
Depleted Uranium Weapon Use Persists, Despite Deadly Side Effects
Depleted Uranium rounds are seen aboard the USS Missouri. (Image: Public Domain) By 2003, reports were surfacing of cancer clusters and birth disorders in conflict areas of …
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NATO Joins Hunt for Qaddafi
Tripoli, Libya - NATO was reported on Thursday to be providing significant support in the hunt for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as rebels traded fire with their adversaries in Tripoli …