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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Picking Up Some Crucial Support, and More…
In today's On the News segment: the Occupy Wall Street movement is picking up some crucial support, Bernanke issues a warning to Congress, a top Al Qaeda leader was …
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The Moral Question
We dodged another shut-down bullet, but only until November 18. That’s when the next temporary bill to keep the government going runs out. House Republicans want more budget cuts …
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Occupy This! TV Interview on the Economy and the Occupy Wall Street Protests
The other day we spoke to RT Television about our search for the #OccupyWallStreet demonstrations in a lower Manhattan that almost felt as if it were under military siege. …
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The Impossible Ideology of Free Trade
Why everything you think you know about economics is probably wrong (Part 2) Absolute and comparative advantage – the faulty premise behind the ideology of free trade …
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The Men We Trusted to Lead Us Have Failed
Now he tells us. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to the nation's unemployment rate as a “national crisis,” a depressing if obvious fact of …
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How Baseball Explains Modern Racism
Despite recent odes to “post-racial” sensibilities, persistent racial wage and unemployment gaps show that prejudice is alive and well in America. Nonetheless, that truism is often angrily denied or …
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Bahrain Court Hands Down Harsh Sentences to Doctors and Protesters
A court in Bahrain sentenced a protester to death on Thursday for killing a police officer in March, and it issued harsh prison terms to medical workers who treated …
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‘Peak Oil’ Takes A Deadly Blow
I've never believed in “peak oil.” (The notion held with religious conviction by many on the left here, that world production is topping out — and will soon slide, …
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Montana Governor Schweitzer Wants to Design His Own Universal Health Care System
As ThinkProgress previously reported, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) made history earlier this year when he signed into law legislation that would make his state the first state to …
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Overcoming Hateful Threats and Arson, Tennessee Mosque Expansion Breaks Ground Without Controversy
As ThinkProgress documented, the congregants of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro in Murfreesboro, Tennessee had been working for more than a year to gain approval for an expansion of …