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Perpetually fuming about President Obama, Sean Hannity widened his rant Wednesday night on Fox News and condemned the “lapdog, kiss ass media” that allegedly lets Obama have his way. Echoing the same attack, Karl Rove  wrote  in the Wall Street Journal this week that  ” Mr

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Conservative media’s Charlotte Allen recently wrote an extensive cover piece for The Weekly Standard that relies on discredited right-wing activists Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams to attack the Department of Justice’s renewed focus on properly enforcing the Voting Rights Act. But while conservative media typically advances these sources and their debunked myths , it is disturbing that mainstream coverage of the Supreme Court case of Shelby County v

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Fox News used the tragic story of a grieving father to continue smearing undocumented immigrants as violent criminals and attack the Obama administration’s deportation policies. In fact, data shows that immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated and do not commit crimes at higher rates than others

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It has been a painful day for me. Two pieces of news came in this morning: one about the massacre of an Yanomami settlement in the Amazon, and the other about Obama green lighting Shell’s drilling in the Arctic Ocean.

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Daphne Wysham Now that the hottest summer on record is drawing to a close, are we any closer to admitting that climate change is upon us? If not, why not? (photo: baldeaglebluff/Flickr) read more

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Dean Baker David Brooks tells us that Obama has three choices for “big ideas.” (Too bad he could only think of three, but that’s another matter.) Anyhow, his choice number 2, fixing a broken capitalism, sounds pretty good.

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This week, Food & Water Watch, along with pet food safety advocates Mollie Morrissette and Susan Thixton, delivered a letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to demand that the FDA take stronger actions to prevent further pet illnesses and to inform consumers of the safety issues related to these products. In addition, Food & Water Watch will drop off a petition signed by nearly 18,000 consumers to the FDA on Friday, Aug. read more

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If a proposal issued today by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is adopted, financial speculators looking to make a quick buck may soon be able to advertise high risk, shady deals to the public with the blessing of the federal government. In the agency’s first rulemaking effort following the April 5th passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the misnamed JOBS Act), the SEC is failing to propose concrete solutions that would prevent average investors from being duped by hedge funds managers and other issuers of private securities. read more

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Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 38 people still on death row in Gambia are at imminent risk of execution following official affirmation that nine other death row inmates were put to death last week.

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed President Barack Obama’s statement in support of a constitutional amendment to undo the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United that paved the way for a flood of campaign cash from corporations and wealthy special interests.

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