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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Montana Follows Vermont’s Lead on Path to State-Level Single-Payer Health Care, and More
In today's On the News segment: Montana follows Vermont's lead on path to state-level single-payer system, Republican attacks on reproductive rights continue in a new request for 12 years …
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Companies Use Immigration Crackdown to Turn a Profit
The men showed up in a small town in Australia’s outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings. Within days, their company, Serco, was flying in …
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Border Patrol Abuses on the Rise
Phoenix, Arizona - The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of abuses against immigrants are on the rise. …
An Economy Blinded by the Sun
It’s a Small World After All As globalization has carried with it a greater degree of potential for economic integration among different nations, the tiny English-speaking Caribbean …
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Young People Must Act Now to Protect Their Futures
As President Obama is selling his American Jobs Act and deficit-reduction plan and Republicans cry “it won't work” and “class warfare,” America faces the threat of a lost generation. …
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USA, 250,000 Empty Public Properties Should Be Used to Address the Housing Crisis
Elephant in the Room: Amongst Talks of Market Fixes, A Crisis in Human Need The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the U.S. Treasury, and the …
Mortgage Industry Tanks, Fraud Continues at Countrywide
Read the first half of this story here. The mortgage market was struggling in March 2007 when Countrywide promoted Eileen Foster to executive vice …
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State Department Considered Two-Year Keystone Pipeline Delay—Briefly
In June of 2010, in the midst of the BP Gulf oil disaster, someone deep in the bowels of the U.S. State Department was considering a two-year delay in …
In Saudi Arabia, a New Era for Women
When King Abdullah’s speech was released by the Saudi Press Service on Sunday, my first reaction was stunned amazement. The second was to think of Dr. Aisha, a physician …
Sex and the Single Drone: The Latest in Guarding the Empire
In the world of weaponry, they are the sexiest things around. Others countries are desperate to have them. Almost anyone who writes about them becomes a groupie. …