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The Day We Fight Back: Activism Sweeps the Internet with Global Action Against Mass Surveillance
Today privacy advocates are holding one of their biggest online actions so far with “The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance.”
Dark Money and the US Chamber of Commerce: Majority of Donations Given by Just 64 Entities
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is swimming in large donations from the top 1 percent.
In Latin American Votes, Honduran Movements Cement Role While El Salvador Poised for Historic Shift
Historian and Latin America expert Greg Grandin looks at two recent elections in Latin America with historic implications.
Easier to Vilify Team Owners than Question Society’s Complicity
The entire NFL has been involved in systematic denial of the long-term effects of game-induced head traumas.
Obama Out-Orwelled Orwell
Barack Obama may as well have delivered his 5th State of the Union address to and for the Superstate Oceania, the fictional empire mired in perpetual war from George …
The Shriveling State of the Union
To hear his fifth State of Union address, an uninformed listener might think America's problems are limited and manageable.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Opposes Giving the President New Fast-Track Powers, and More
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he opposes giving the President new fast-track powers.
Everything the Big Banks Don’t Want You to Know
In this episode we put on our rubber gloves and dive into it.
SOTU: President’s Base Opposes Fast Track for TPP
Corporate interests that fought the president's re-election are lobbying for him to use the speech to call on Congress to enact Fast Track authority for the TPP.
“A Silent Coup”: Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU
On issues from domestic inequality to foreign policy, President Obama delivered the fifth State of the Union with a vow to take action on his own should Congress stonewall …