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On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Obama Announces an Order to Help Americans Pay Student Loans, and More
President Obama announced an executive order to help five million Americans pay off their student loans, and more.
Dark Money, Dirty War: The Corporate Crusade Against Low-Wage Workers
Attacks on worker organizing are taking place against a backdrop of an economy in crisis.
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Dahr Jamail | Will Fracking Cause Our Next Nuclear Disaster?
The idea of storing radioactive nuclear waste inside a hollowed-out salt cavern might look good on paper. But serious problems could result if there is fracking nearby.
Growing Up in the Cauldron of 1960’s Detroit
Robert Johnson, who while working with George Soros “broke the Bank of England,” talks about growing up in the turmoil of racial tension and the mass movement against the …
Seattle Wins $15 Minimum Wage – Will Your Town Be Next?
Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.
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Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor Into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
Building a DNA database within the NHS would be a massive waste of public money. But it would also create a system of total surveillance which would enable the …
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New Report Documents How Privatization Steals Wages, Harms Communities
A new report from the nonprofit research group In the Public Interest shows that outsourcing public services hurts middle and working class communities as well as workers.
EPA Moves to Cut Coal Pollution, but Critics Say Plan Falls Short on Real Emissions Reduction
Many environmentalists are urging the United States to take greater action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
New Whistleblower Organization Launched on Anniversary of Snowden Revelations
Former whistleblowers Radack, Wiebe, Coleman-Adebayo and Ellsberg speak out at the launch of ExposeFacts.org, a US-based independent media organization that encourages whistleblowers to expose government and corporate malfeasance.
Who Is Behind the National Right to Work Committee and Its Anti-Union Crusade?
A major case left for a Supreme Court decision is Harris v. Quinn, which could effect millions of public sector workers in the United States.