Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
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U.S. Sees Highest Poverty Spike Since the 1960s
20 per cent of the country’s children are now classified as poor.
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Challenging Corporate Rule: From Growing Profit to Growing Food
Over the years, food has been converted from nourishment to a mass-marketed consumer product.
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The NRA's Plan For Our Schools: More Guns
The NRA introduced “model legislation” for placing armed guards in schools, a process which will rely on the same background checks the organization vehemently opposes.
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Secret Files Expose the Global Impact of Offshore Tax Havens
In what's being dubbed the biggest document leak since Wikileaks, a cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over.
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Utah's Students Forced to Push Fossil Fuel Propaganda for Earth Day
Some Utahns are outraged that the Utah Division of Oil, Gas & Mining sponsored an Earth Day poster contest extolling the virtues of oil, gas and mining.
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Top Senator Apologizes for Monsanto Protection Act
Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland released a statement apologizing to the public for the passing of the Monsanto Protection Act, stating the legislation was buried deep in a government spending bill to "prevent a government shutdown."
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Petition Power: More than 330,000 Reject Holder's “Too Big to Jail”
Activists on Tuesday delivered more than 330,000 signatures to U.S. Department of Justice offices calling on the Obama Administration to reject Eric Holder’s declaration that some financial institutions are too big to jail.
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Healthcare Lottery: May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor
Tennessee holds “health care lotteries” to ration Medicaid health insurance to the nearly 200,000 uninsured residents.
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BitCoin Rising: If You Don't Trust the Banks, Go Digital
While conventional currencies are taking a tumble there is one currency bucking the trend –- the BitCoin, which has more than doubled in value in the past few weeks.
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Alberta's Top Judge to Hear High Profile Fracking Case
Alberta's top judge will be the new case manager for a celebrated multi-million lawsuit on the groundwater impacts of fracking.