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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers’ Stories: Lorenzo Benton
As the hunger strikers enter their 4th week, Pelican Bay prisoner Lorenzo Benton describes what happens at the facility and theu00a0retaliatory actions that have been taken against the hunger …
You Are, In Fact, Being Watched
If they can jail someone based on surveillance-gathered data forwarded surreptitiously to the DEA, why not you?
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democrats in Congress Are Standing Up to the Supreme Court, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Tea Party is turning on Republicans; rising ocean temperatures rise around the globe, are forcing marine life to migrate to cooler waters; …
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Congressional Recess
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Obstruction
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I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours
Those who run our new surveillance state have not the slightest hesitation about sacrificing us on the altar of their plans.
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As Oil Industry Grows, Minnesotans Say Pipeline Operators Have Been Bad Neighbors
Despite a federal lawsuit over permit violations, Canadian company Enbridge Inc. is moving forward to expand the tar sands pipeline, much to the dismay of Minnesota residents.
Ken Cook on Improving the Chemical Safety Improvement Act
The Chemical Safety Improvement Act, co-sponsored by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and David Vitter (R-LA), was introduced earlier this year, shortly before Sen. Lautenberg passed away on June 5, …
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Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the Economic time bomb that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming.
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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 …