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Thatcher Forged an Alliance Between Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism
Thatcher passed away this week, but the alliance of neoliberals and neoconservatives that she helped forge remains strong to this day.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Has Officially Released His Fifth Annual Budget, and More
In today's On the News segment: President Obama's plan would reduce the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, through a mix of spending cuts and revenues; Oregon Democrats are …
Obama Fully Embraces Austerity With Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Bob Pollin: Costs of Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with rise in fiscal deficit.
Debate: After Activists Covertly Expose Animal Cruelty, Should They Be Targeted With “Ag-Gag” Laws?
So-called ‘ag-gag’ bills that criminalize undercover filming on farms and at slaughterhouses to document criminal animal abuse are sweeping the country.
The Way of the Knife: NYT’s Mark Mazzetti on the CIA’s Post-9/11 Move from Spying to Assassinations
Mark Mazzetti tracks the transformation of the CIA and US special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Mayors Against Illegal Guns Create Grading System to Score Lawmakers on Gun Safety, and More
In today's On the News segment: The former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that all 104 nuclear power plants in our nation should phased out for newer …
Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow
In Californiau2019s Silicon Valley, Facebook, Google and Apple have minted hundreds of new tech millionaires. But not far away, the homeless are building tent cities along a creek in …
Leaked EPA Documents Expose Decades-Old Effort to Hide Dangers of Natural Gas Extraction
Efforts by lawmakers and regulators to force the federal government to better police the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing.
“The Kissinger Cables”: Three Years After “Collateral Murder,” WikiLeaks Explores US Diplomacy
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has just published
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Inmates in Austerity-Wracked Cyprus Donate $11K to Volunteer Health Clinic, and More
In today's On the News segment: Ohio Supreme Court justice says problems with modern-day debtors' prisons can and should be addressed, and more.