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Environment
Corporate Mind Control, Killer Furniture, Bee Deaths and Whitewashing Vietnam
The Redacted team shows you ways to die that should scare you more than Ebola, cracks the corporate manipulation code, Boston-cremes its pants for Dunkin' Donuts and gets creative …
SEC Commissioner Kara Stein Fighting for Tougher Bank Sanctions, Stymies Bank of America Settlement
SEC commissioner Kara Stein has been using her post as a surprisingly effective bully pulpit to pressure the agency and other regulators into upping their game against big banks …
Pay Rent or Drink Water: The Human Rights Crisis in Detroit Escalates
Water shutoffs in Detroit have resumed, targeting the “most vulnerable and poorest” of the city's population, according to UN observers.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 2 Million Barrels of Oil Still Trapped on the Ocean Floor After BP Spill, and More
In today's On the News segment: According to a new study, about 2 million barrels are still trapped on the ocean floor after the 2010 BP oil spill, and …
Jim Crow Returns: Interstate “Crosscheck” Program Could Strip Millions of the Right to Vote
Investigative journalist Greg Palast details how new voter ID laws risk disenfranchising millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters.
Chief Caleen Sisk: It’s All One Big Project
Tribal leaders and river and groundwater protection advocates on Monday, October 27, announced their strong opposition to Proposition 1, Governor Jerry Brown's controversial State Water Bond.
Goliath Gets Bigger: Prop. 1 War Chest Grows to $16.4 million
The big corporate money behind the water bond largely determines who the bond will benefit - billionaires, corporate agribusiness, oil companies and the 1 percent, not the people, fish …
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Faces of Fracking: Rebecca Claassen
A grassroots effort in Santa Barbara County to stop intensive oil production fights against millions from the oil industry.
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Fasting for Democracy: Why I’ve Given Up Food to Fight Corruption
The struggle to end corruption and establish political equality regardless of wealth is a struggle to ensure that universal suffrage still means something.
FAIR TV: Time Magazine Fail, Climate Change Dodge and Erasing Non-Voters
FAIR TV covers Time magazine's attacks on public school teachers, new GOP tactics on climate change denial and campaign coverage.