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“Tobacco Can Cure Smoking” and Other Highlights of ALEC’s Annual Meeting in Salt Lake
State legislators attending this week's American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in Salt Lake City will be told they can advance ALEC's mission of
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Dark Money Political Groups Target Voters Based on Their Internet Habits
These groups are spending massively on television spots attacking different candidates. These ads are often highly publicized and get plenty of media attention.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Mitt Romney’s Foreign Faux Pas, and More
In today's On the News Segment: Mitt Romney flubs his first international trip as a Presidential candidate; Capital One was the first bank to be hit by the Consumer …
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Economic Update: “Following the Money Trails”
Updates include Capital One Bank's misdeeds, French socialists' new policies, taxing churches in Spain, Walton family's immense wealth, strike at Caterpillar, and taxing private wealth.
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Austerity, Adjustment and Social Genocide: Political Language and the European Debt Crisis
Political language functions through euphemism, by employing soft-sounding or simply meaningless words to describe otherwise monstrous and vicious policies and objectives.
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The Man Who Invented “Too Big to Fail” Banks Finally Recants – Will Obama or Romney Follow?
If any single person is responsible for Wall Street banks becoming too big to fail itu2019s Sandy Weill.
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It’s Time to Lay the Groundwork for Radical, Systemic Change
The American Revolution itself stands as a reminder of how the then most powerful empire in the world could be challenged.
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The Curious Case of Denmark
Whatu2019s happening in Denmark is an indication of just how severe the euro crisis is u2014 so severe that people are willing to pay to have their money stored …
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Inside Karl Rove’s Secretive Effort to Defeat Obama’s Re-Election With Help of Billionaire Donors
Karl Rove, the man once known as “Bushu2019s Brain,” has helped found two groups that plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for television, radio and online attacks …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Chicago Is Latest City to Approve Resolution to Overturn Citizens United, and More
Yesterday u2013 Senate Republicans dropped their filibuster and allowed an up or down vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for 98% of Americans, a Japanese newspaper is …