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As Candidates Tied to Guatemalan Army and Oligarch Vie for Power, What’s Next for Popular Uprising?
In Guatemala, a television comedian has won the first round of the nation's presidential elections.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Large Infrastructure Projects Could Have Disastrous Effects on Our Planet, and More
In today's On the News segment: The large infrastructure projects planned in the next 15 years could have a disastrous effect on our planet; the US Navy is investing …
The Rise of History’s Biggest Empire
“Empire Files” will document a world plagued by rampant inequality and endless war through rigorous investigative journalism.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality: “The Violence Is Not New, It’s the Cameras That Are New”
“It's the cameras that are new. It's not the violence that's new.”
“Between the World and Me”: Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation on Being Black in the US
Coates talks about his new book and his upbringing in Baltimore.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 1.5 Million US Households Live in Extreme Poverty, and More
In today's On the News segment: The number of Americans living on less than $2 a day has doubled in the last two decades; women fighting for equal pay …
Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Celebrates Jailing of Ex-Guatemalan President
In Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina has been jailed.
Allan Nairn: US Backers of Guatemalan Death Squads Should Be Jailed
Allan Nairn looks at how Perez Molina could also be charged for the mass killings of indigenous Guatemalans.
Chicago Hunger Strikers Challenge Rahm Emanuel’s Push to Privatize Schools
Education activists are entering the 19th day of a hunger strike to save Dyett High School.
Guatemalan President Resigns in “Huge Victory” for Popular Uprising
After a massive public uprising, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has resigned.