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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Thanksgiving Report: Cuts to U.S. Food Programs = Hunger
With $11 billion of food-stamp cuts in place and $40 billion in welfare cuts on the table, charities and religious groups must significantly step up their political campaigning to combat hunger.
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16 Mind-Blowing Facts About Who Really Killed JFK
Government documents declassified after the passage of the JFK Records Act in 1992 provide overwhelming evidence implicating the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies as well as top military officials and corporate entities in the president's assassination.
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Obamacare Faces New Threat at State Level from Corporate Mega-Lobby ALEC
A new proposal by the American Legislative Exchange Council, approved at its annual meeting in Chicago in August and published as a model bill for adoption by state assemblies nationwide, would scupper the federal health insurance exchanges.
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Paris Isn’t Burning — Not Yet
Today, France isn’t occupied — unless you count multinational corporations as occupiers. Instead, it's the racists, the Anti-Semites and the members of the National Front who are fanning the flames of popular discontent.
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Why Does Britain Want to Deport One-Time Protester Trenton Oldfield?
The 37-year-old was imprisoned for interrupting a boat race last year, which highlighted inequalities and Britain's rigid class system. Now, the government wants him out of the country. Their rationale: he may “threaten national security.”
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CEOs Against Grandmas: How an Unpatriotic Corporate Elite Are Pillaging Retirees
The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security — yet are part of austerity armies determined to make older people pay.
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Exclusive: Teen's Mysterious Killing At Mexican Border Exposes Unaccountable, Violent U.S. Policy
The fatal cross-border shooting by U.S. agents of an unarmed 16-year-old boy highlights a spate of killings of Mexicans who posed no security threat and who were standing on their own country's soil — raising serious questions about U.S. border violence.
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Are State Officials Withholding Vital Information from the Mayflower Oil Spill?
The state has the tools necessary to determine which poisons were released, in what concentration, and how far they spread during the massive tar sands spill in Arkansas this year — information that could be decisive in court battles with Exxon.
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Walmart Holding Canned Food Drive For Its Own Underpaid Employees
“Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner,” reads a sign in the employee lounge of a Canton-area Walmart.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Wants to Be Climate Leader – While Fracking Lots of Oil
In August, the 75-year-old, three-term governor signed into law SB4, ensuring fracking for at least the next two years while exempting the practice from thorough review under the California Environmental Quality Act.