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Billion-dollar climate denial network exposed
An extensive study into the financial support for denying the science behind climate change and opposing political action has found a vast secretive network of think tanks and industry associations
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Forget Shorter Showers
Upping the Stakes Why personal change does not equal political change by Derrick Jensen WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended ...
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How to Survive an Internet Apocalypse
On a bright Saturday morning earlier this month, about thirty people gathered inside a large, dimly lit warehouse in Chelsea, hunched over smartphones, hand-drawn maps, and computer-networking ...
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Income for all
Could adopting unconditional basic income end poverty?
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Get Intersectional! Or, Why Your Movement Can't Go It Alone
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." -Audre Lorde Here's the scenario: This year's epic drought devastates agriculture in California. Water
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Competing Visions: President Obama, Rep. Paul Ryan, and House Progressives
National Priorities Project nominated for 2014 Nobel Peace Prize April 1, 2014 - Download PDF Version National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans ...
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Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever
EFF has long advocated for websites to support HTTPS instead of plain HTTP to encrypt and authenticate data transmitted on the Internet. However, we learned yesterday of a catastrophic bug ...
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Obama signs ban on public funding of political conventions into law
A ban on public funding of presidential conventions was quietly signed into law by Barack Obama on Thursday in a move that could further increase the dependency of US political parties on wealthy ...
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Call climate change what it is: violence
If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it - by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun
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Baltimore Residents Decry Lack of Affordable Housing
Statistics show Baltimore has as many as 40,000 vacant homes but only 43 affordable units are available per 100 extremely low-income households
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#OpIsraelBirthday: Hackers of the World Uniting Forces for a Massive Cyber
The online hacktivist AnonGhost along with a group of hackers has decided to attack Israeli cyber space on 7th April, 2014 when the country will be celebrating its birthday. One of AnonGhost's repr...
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Federal Judge Dismisses Drone Strike Lawsuits
By: Derrick Broze On Friday U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration for the 2011 deaths of three United States citizens, including a 16 year old ...
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Humanity's Crisis Is Systemic and Overwhelming-And the Only Way Out Is to Create
It is easy to become numb to the realities we face. We hear near daily reporting of severe crises covering so many aspects of people's lives, they even include our survival on the planet. Sometimes
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'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother'
Written by Liza Long, republished from The Blue Review Friday's horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ...
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Desmond Tutu: Maryland legislature's anti-boycott effort designed to 'punish and
As the end of Maryland's legislative session approaches, a battle is raging over language in the budget that harshly criticizes the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. A Maryland dele...
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Koch ally to introduce Monsanto-backed bill to bar state GMO labeling laws
Rep. Mike Pompeo will introduce legislation backed by powerful trade groups to prevent states from passing laws requiring the labeling of genetically-modified foods, according to reports. The bill ...
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UPS Fires 250 Employees After They Protest the Termination of Co-Worker
UPS sent out termination notices to 250 of their Queens, New York drivers after they held a 90-minute protest in support of a fellow worker. It was supposed to be a symbolic act of solidarity with ...
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Assange's support for European internet
In a rare interview, Julian Assange - founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks - has spoken to the BBC's technology programme Click. Mr Assange has been based in the Ecuadorean Embassy in ...
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Sen. Moran performs ultimate in constituent services by reading Charles Koch's
Jerry Moran just helping a fellow Kansan get the word out. The Senate chambers were nearly empty Thursday when Republican Sen. Jerry Moran popped up behind the podium to do a favor for a beleaguered
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What the hell is voter purging?!
In recent under-covered news, the state of Florida considered purging non-legal voters from state lists for the second time in two years. At face value, this doesn't seem like a bad thing, but voter
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Judge says du Pont heir 'will not fare well' in prison
A Superior Court judge who sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter noted in her order that he 'will not fare well' in prison and needed treatment instead of
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How British Columbia Enacted the Most Effective Carbon Tax in North America
Suppose that you live in Vancouver and you drive a car to work. Naturally, you have to get gas regularly. When you stop at the pump, you may see a notice like the one below, explaining that part of
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Violence against U.S. homeless on the rise | Al Jazeera America
Despite a decrease in the U.S. homeless population, new research by an advocacy group for the homeless indicates an alarming increase in violent crimes targeting those living on the streets. In ...
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With Democrats like these, who needs GOP?
If you needed proof of the political class' abiding support of the ruling class over the working class, look no further than the purportedly left-leaning blue state of Maryland, with a ...
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FBI Continues To Withhold Information On Occupy Assassination Plots
It was quietly reported last June that the FBI was aware that an organization -- possibly a law enforcement agency -- had plans to assassinate leaders of the Occupy movement, and the bureau did ...