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Police Raid Anti-Fracking Encampment in Pennsylvania
This move by Aqua America — which stands to profit generously from expanded drilling across the country — could be premonitory of upcoming battles over the role of for-profit …
Texas Activists Move Toward Tar Sands Blockade
Texas climate justice activists are prepared to use nonviolent, direct action to block the Keystone XL pipeline's construction.
Election Countdown 2012: Emails Document General Counsel Maria Mathews Acknowledged Florida’s Inability to Supply Documentation to DHS in Voter Purge, and More
FL. u201cVoter purge: u201cThe emails document that u2014 despite public claims to the contrary by Scott and Detzner u2014 as early as October of last year, Matthews fully acknowledged …
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And You Thought It Would Be Easy? Graduating the Class of 2012 Onto Our Overheated Planet
Letu2019s admit something else about the heat today, as you bake under your graduation gowns: whether or not you have the figures at your fingertips, whether or not you …
Do the Koch Brothers Determine Our Energy Dependence?
Ever since President Roosevelt signed an oil agreement with Saudi Arabia in 1945, our fraught relationships in the Middle East have been driven by our militarized dependency on their …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Lawmakers Got Inside Information From Bush Administration Officials During the 2008 Financial Crisis, and More
Thom Hartmann: It pays to be a Member of Congress during a financial crisis.
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Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected much of Arizonau2019s tough new immigration law but allowed one key provision to stand, saying federal law did not pre-empt the state's instruction …
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Will We Love the Health Care Law if It Dies?
“Obamacare” isn't about President Obama. It's about beginning to bring an end to the scandal of a very rich nation leaving so many of its citizens without basic health …
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Why We Fight
The deeper the descent the more the criminal class and the city authorities become indistinguishable, a smaller version of what has been replicated by corporations across the nation.
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Monsanto Trumps Food Safety and Democracy (Again)
Monsanto successfully intimidated the state legislature from voting on a bill that would have required GMO labelling.