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You’ve Got No Mail
The corporate hit job on the Postal Service continues with the end of Saturday mail.
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The Movement – Waves Constantly Shaping the Shore
Margaret Flowers gives an update of national resistance movements.
Why Latin America Didn’t Join Washington’s Counterterrorism Posse
It turns out that 54 nations (other than the US) took part in setting up, aiding, and maintaining the American global gulag.
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Minimum Wage: Who Decided Workers Should Fall Behind?
If the minimum wage had risen in step with productivity growth, it would be over $16.50 an hour today.
Truthout TV: Laura Flanders on the State of the Nation
The discussion includes Laura's views on economic equality and the war in Afghanistan.
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The Queer Case Against Prisons
Toshio Meronek's review of Prisons Will Not Protect You highlights the emphasis by the book's contributors that the Corrections Department isn't in the business of correcting oppression.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republican War on Woman Went into Overdrive in Arkansas, and More
Arkansas's legislature has passed one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans.
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Private Debt – Not Government Debt – Will Destroy America
There are two kinds of debt. One thatu2019s relatively harmless. And one that can destroy us all.
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Britain Says Equine Drug May Have Entered Food Chain
A crisis over horse meat in European food products deepened on Thursday when British officials said tests showed that a powerful equine drug, potentially harmful to human health, may …
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States Cut Prison Budgets but Not Prison Populations
State prisons play musical chairs with inmate populations and come up short.