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On the News With Thom Hartmann: When Business and Politics Mix, the Public Pays the Price, and More
There's an important lesson to be learned from the ongoing coal ash disaster in North Carolina. When business and politics mix, the public pays the price, and more.
Truthout Interviews Featuring Aaron Cantu on TV Cop Shows and Police Violence
Aaron Cantu talks about who profits and who loses when cop booster shows legitimize police violence.
DREAM Act Narrowly Fails in NY Senate After Gov. Andrew Cuomo Failed to Push Passage
The New York State Senate has rejected a bill that would have provided tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant college students.
Are Tuition Breaks Enough To Combat High Student Debt and Low Graduation Rates?
The University of Baltimore's Peter Toran and UC-Santa Barbara graduate student Samir Sonti discuss UB's plan to offer students a free final semester of tuition, and agree that federal …
CIA and NSA Wrongdoing Requires Independent Investigation, Says Former Church Committee Staff
Burt Wides, a former chief investigator for the Church Committee, who helped create the Senate and House intelligence committees, says these oversight bodies are now too entwined with the …
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Residents Still Not Drinking Tap Water Two Months After West Virginia Spill
Shaghayegh Tajvidi travels to Charleston to investigate the impacts of the massive West Virginia chemical spill.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Koch Brothers Spent More Money Than the Top 10 Unions Combined, and More
In today's On the News segment: In the 2012 elections, the Koch brothers spent more money than the top ten unions combined;Â the gamblers on Wall Street raked in $26.7 …
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Fukushima Fallout: Ailing US Sailors Sue TEPCO After Exposure to Radiation 30 Times Higher Than Normal
Many of the servicemembers who provided humanitarian relief during the disaster have experienced devastating health ailments since returning from Japan.
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Former US Ambassador: Behind Crimea Crisis, Russia Responding to Years of “Hostile” US Policy
The standoff over Ukraine and the fate of Crimea has sparked the worst East-West crisis since the end of the Cold War.
Robert Pollin: Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget Strikes Back Against Austerity
The Congressional Progressive Caucus's budget would increase spending on education, healthcare and the green economy while rolling back cuts against social services.