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Economic Update: Conditions of the Working Class
Updates on Newtown, CT. school shooting, global warming and the CIA, Hostess abuses workers' pensions, and growing gap between CEOs' and workers' pay.
Dean Baker: The Biggest Myth in Obama-GOP Spending Showdown Is the “Fiscal Cliff” Itself
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. As negotiations continue between the White House and House Speaker John Boehner, leading economist Dean …
Serious People Could be Seriously Embarrassed: Why It’s Important that We Not Go Off the “Fiscal Cliff“
What they fear is yet another huge embarrassment, if people see the deadline come and go and the economy doesn't crash and the world doesn't end.
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Fly the Stingy Skies
Michigan Anti-Union Law Drafted by ALEC
Mary Bottari: At the last minute, Michigan governor uses right-wing group's draft of legislation that gives workers the “right” to work without collective bargaining.
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In Britain and the US, Grim Expectations
Paul Krugman: Thereu2019s an interesting mix of contrast and similarity between the policy debates in Britain and the US right now, but people tell very different stories about the …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Conservatives and Corporatists Hope to Spread Right-to-Work-for-Less Laws, and More
In today's On the News segment: Conservatives and corporatists hope to get more states to pass Right-to-Work-for-less laws, Victims of Hurricane Sandy are the latest hostages of the Republican …
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A Former Republican Insider Begs for Sanity
The OxyContin and Viagra-soaked brain of Rush Limbaugh is warning of the coming self-destruction of the Republican Party.
Thousands Protest Michigan’s Anti-Union Law, But Deep Pockets of Right-Wing Backers Prevail
Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder has signed into law two highly controversial anti-union bills, officially making the historic union stronghold the 24th so-called
Charles Glass on Syria’s Mutual Destruction and the Unconvincing Fears of Assad’s Chemical Weapons
Veteran journalist Charles Glass joins us to discuss his recent trip to Syria and its largest city, Aleppo.