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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Activists Take Over Wall Street After Climate March, and More
In today's On the News segment: Activists and protesters take over Wall Street after NYC climate march, and more.
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Venture Capitalists Are Poised to “Disrupt” Everything About the Education Market
Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education.
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Naomi Klein: We Must Demand the Impossible to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change
Naomi Klein's new book resets the debate over global warming by focusing on how it is integrally related to the current economic system that spans the globe.
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Financial Relief Finally Coming for Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Victims
The VA announced it will cover health care costs for Marine dependents who contracted cancer and other illnesses from toxic water at Camp Lejeune, as promised two years ago.
Militarizing the Ebola Crisis
The Obama administration's deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader US-led militarization in West Africa.
Reports Condemn Health Care and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons
The American Civil Liberties Union and Prison Law Office released a series of 26 reports alleging extensive problems with the Arizona Department of Corrections' healthcare program and its use …
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Scrambling Birds’ Brains: Could This Toxic Algae Offer Clues to Human Diseases?
A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.
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Code Black: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
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The Nasty, Scary World of Emerging Tick-Borne Disease
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding.
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Destroying a Bridge to Somewhere
Infrastructure is just another big word invented by tax-and-spend liberals.