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Re-Occupation and Police Raid of Zuccotti Park Set Tone for Radical Spring
Police officers prepare to detain protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a rally at Zuccotti Park in New York, March 17, 2012. Scores of Occupy Wall Street …
How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You
Many evangelicals wear their religion on T-shirts and around their necks and on car bumpers and eye-blacks. They hand out tracts on college campuses and stage revival meetings on …
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Missouri Caucuses Marked by Contention, With No Clear Victor Yet
A man is arrested outside after the St. Charles Caucus was shut down at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Missouri, on March 17, 2012. The event …
In Afghanistan, the Dam Breaks
The news just keeps getting worse in Afghanistan for the United States. Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan project has warned for years that the premises of a counterinsurgency there …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: SOPA Corporate Creep, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this. The largest online protest in the history of the Internet may have derailed SOPA and PIPA earlier …
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Poll: Sixty-Five Percent of Americans Want More Fracking Regulations
(Photo: ProgressOhio / Flickr) The number of Americans who say they want more regulation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, outnumber those who want less regulation by a …
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Sen. Barbara Boxer Claims Success With Bipartisan Transportation Bill
Washington - The Senate's approval Wednesday of a two-year, $109 billion transportation bill gives Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer a prize that has sometimes eluded her: a newly polished reputation …
The United States Has Been Enabling Torture for Decades
(Image: Troy Page; Adapted: mike.benedetti, Caleb Kimbrough) Marjorie Cohn – a law professor and past president of the National Lawyer's Guild – has assembled a compelling interdisciplinary …
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Facebook Can Go Public, but Can It Build Solidarity?
Let's try to get a grasp on where Facebook stands in terms of that super old-school term, “reality.” Your plight is this: You can't get to any objective truths …
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Florida Doles Out Billions in Corporate Tax Breaks While Slashing College Funding and Laying off Thousands
Florida’s GOP dominated legislature, along with Republican Gov. Rick Scott, has already decided that it would be prudent to pay for a corporate tax break by slashing the state’s …