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Environment
How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse
The entire American food system is built on one crop — corn. And that is really bad news.
The For-Profit College Racket
This is an industry that is by and large exploitative to its students and useless to the public good.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporations Are Bribing Foreign Government Officials, and More
In today's On the News segment: On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it would temporarily freeze any new licenses or renewal of licenses for nuclear power plants …
Congress as Enabler: The Pentagon Can’t Kill the M-1 Tank, Only an IED Can (Part Two)
We have around 2,300 M-1s stashed around the world and 3,000 M-1s surpluses in the Nevada desert, waiting for the next large country-to-country tank war that may never come.
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Were the Atomic Bombings Necessary?
Despite strong evidence that the atomic bombings were not responsible for ending the war with Japan, most Americans, particularly those who lived through World War II, believe that they …
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Bill Clinton Blasts Romney’s “Disappointing” New Welfare Claim
Clinton called Romney's charge against Obama's alleged plan to gut welfare reform
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The Twin Existential Threats
While nuclear weapons and global warming may work together to end life on Earth, the worldu2019s politicians are doing little about either.
The Summer of Solidarity: Direct Action Against Extraction
Candice Bernd discusses the political hardships and violent protests endured by the dedicated generation of climate activists.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More
In today's On the News segment: The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on …
Death Threats, Censorship and the Aztec Calendar
After the January 2012 dismantling of Tucsonu2019s Mexican American Studies (MAS) department by TUSDu2019s governing board, my colleague Norma Gonzalez at MAS-TUSD was forced to take down the image …