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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Greece Finally Has a Government, and More
In today's On the News segment: Greece finally has a government; JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon again appears before the House Financial Services Committee; Congressman Paul Ryan wants to …
Julian Assange’s Artful Dodge
Assangeu2019s freedom now depends largely on Ecuadorian President Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado, a new breed of independent-minded leader like Venezuelan President Hugo Chu00e1vez.
Houla Massacre Carried Out by Free Syrian Army, According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
A Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung report refutes the official account by the United States and other major powers and presented uncritically by the media. The massacre was attributed to pro-government …
Democratic Unfreedom — Social Technique and the Manufacture of Control
A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. - Herbert Marcuse
The Greek Elections and the Future of John Maynard Keynes
In what is certainly the most closely watched election that Greece has ever had, the center-right New Democracy Party took nearly 30 percent of the vote, with SYRIZA rising …
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A Back Door to the Public Option
The fact is, thereu2019s enough the public likes about Obamacare that if the Court strikes down the individual mandate that wonu2019t be the end. It will just be the …
Health Insurance Companies Plowed Over $107 Million Into Electing Speaker Boehner’s Anti-Health Reform Congress
And not only has this money corrupted our government, we didnu2019t even find out about it until two years after it was spent since it was hidden in 501(c) …
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WaPo’s Plug for Health Insurer Misses the Deadly Fine Print
Washington Post article reiterates corporate-healthcare talking points.
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Criminalizing Pregnancy: How Feticide Laws Made Common Ground for Pro- and Anti-Choice Groups
National Advocates for Pregnant women demands more than punitive solutions to social problems that affect everyone.
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Splitting Hairs in a Multi-Cultural School
Sasha Rivera is a 15-year-old sophomore at the Multi-Cultural Academy Charter School (MACS) in Philadelphia. She's an honors student who never got into trouble at school, and volunteers at …