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One of the National Security Agency's biggest defenders in Congress is suddenly at odds with the agency and calling for a top-to-bottom review of U.S. spy programs. And her long-time friends and ...

Why is there so much death and disease among sea life living near the west coast of North America right now? Could the hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water that are being released into the ...

OUR POLLS - OCCUPY THE VOTE - ELECTION SEASON 2012 Announcing "OUR POLLS" - A new joint effort between Anonymous and the Occupy Movement to hold politicians accountable to the People. Elected ...

Marianne Williamson, the best-selling author whose "A Return to Love" spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 1992, announced Sunday that she is running as an independent for the US

A 12-year-old in his cell at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. The window has been boarded up from the outside. The facility is operated by Mississippi Security ...

11 minutes | Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman engages Russell Brand about voting, apathy, revolution and beards... and it's the most utterly fantastic clash between the old paradigm and the new paradigm ...

Public Service Political Opinion Illustration: Pat Campbell In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Britain or

Cars. They're noisy and ugly. They smell terrible and cause disease on an epidemic proportion. They move way too fast, take up an extraordinary amount of space, are a leech on the economy, and have

"This is a wondrously thought-provoking book. Unlike other social theorists who either mindlessly decry or celebrate the digital age, Rushkoff explores how it has caused a focus on the immediate ...

Once again, The Brew heads down the Patapsco River to another world - the world of Sparrows Point, where the industrial remains of that once-mighty empire impress a French film crew doing a ...