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On the News with Thom Hartmann: Anti-Austerity Strikes Halted Business in Spain Yesterday, and More
In today's On the News segment: Supreme Court now deciding the fate of Obamacare, the recall vote of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is set, new oil subsidies sail through …
Fault Lines: Occupy Wall Street: Surviving the Winter (Part 2)
Part two | Fault Lines follows key Occupy organisers through the winter as they continue to build a movement even after violent evictions across the country. Also see: (Photo: …
Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter: However Court Rules on Healthcare, Solution is Single Payer
As the Supreme Court examines whether Americans can be penalized if they lack medical coverage, we're joined by health industry whistleblower, Wendell Potter. A former spokesperson for CIGNA and …
High Oil Prices Must be Subject of Criminal Investigation
Gas prices at a gas station in San Diego, March 16, 2012. (Photo: Sandy Huffaker / The New York Times)Michael Greenberger: Big banks and traders involved in a criminal …
“You Can’t Take Away My Hope”: Thirty Years of Climate Scientists Helplessly Describing Our Dangerously Changing World
In a new video by Peter Sinclair, prominent climate scientist Michael MacCracken discusses how the last thirty years have confirmed the predictions he and others made in 1982 and earlier. …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Anti-Muslim Hate Crime in California, and More
In today's On the News segment: “Obamacare” goes before the Supreme Court, Wall Street doubles down on GOP donations, “Shoot First Law” in Florida under scrutiny, climate change is …
Banking “Technocrats” Undermine Democracy
Paul Jay, Senior Editor, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. In September 2011, at a time when the sovereign debt raiders, as some …
The Finger of Fate Upon You
The last ten years have been a festival of profit-taking for a small collection of people you will never meet.
Everything Dies
Call me a convert, but I'm beginning to dig this whole let-the-marketplace-work-it-out capitalism thing.
As Obama Picks Up Union Endorsements, a Debate on Labor’s Role in 2012 Campaign (2)
We host a debate on Big Labor’s endorsement of President Obama’s re-election between labor reporter Mike Elk and Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180, a …