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No Justice in Sanford, No Peace in the Borderlands: Stand Your Ground, Border Policing and the Mass Production of Corpses of Color
In light of the Zimmerman verdict, the Border Patrol shooting of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in October 2012 is emblematic of another form of one-sided violence likely to intensify …
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Economy Added 162,000 Jobs in July; Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.4 Percent
The Labor Department reported the economy added 162,000 jobs in July. Job growth for the prior two months was also revised down by 26,000, bringing the average growth over …
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Current Political System Incapable of Meeting Social, Economic, Environmental Challenges
A long and slow-developing path forward might be called “evolutionary reconstruction.”
Noam Chomsky: “Bradley Manning Should Be Regarded as a Hero”
Laura Flanders interviews Noam Chomsky about Manning, the TransPacific Partnership and the wisdom of the indigenous.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden Granted a One-Year Asylum in Russia, and More
In today's On the News segment: NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted a one-year asylum in Russia; as climate change increases temperatures around our planet, many species of plants …
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Pacifier
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President Offers To Give Republicans The Store, They Demand More
The President offered Republicans a corporate tax reform plan that gives them everything they want.
New Monetary Systems for a Sustainable Democracy and “The Great Turning“
Our money system is ill-equipped to help us solve the socio-economic and ecological challenges we face.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals Has Ruled on a New Aspect of Corporate Personhood, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on a new aspect of corporate personhood u2013 a corporation's right to the free exercise …
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“It Can’t Happen Here”…But It Is Happening There
Right now, highly toxic and environmentally devastating tar sands oil is leaking from underground wells at a tar sands oil extracting operation in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada.