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Anger, Disbelief as Obama Defends US Invasion of Iraq
President Obama is on the receiving end of scorn for remarks made during a high-profile speech in Brussels on Wednesday in which he defended the U.S. invasion of Iraq in an attempt to chastise ...
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Millennials Don't Care About Owning Cars, And Car Makers Can't Figure Out Why
Auto manufacturers today are scratching their heads, trying to figure out why the millennial generation has little-to-no interest in owning a car. What car makers are failing to see is that this ...
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Chesapeake Citizens: Re-dreaming Our Watershed
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"TFA Truth Tour" to Expose Dark Side of Corporate Education Reform
Starting tomorrow, USAS is launching the next stage in our campaign to fight back against corporate robber barons of education reform on our campuses: the Teach for America Truth Tour. The tour will
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Conservative Book Sales Plummeting
The Conservative publishing industry has been experiencing a boom along with the rise of right-wing talk radio. But now, that has come to an end like anything which is assumed to grow forever and ...
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Social Destabilization and Transition - P2P Foundation
The early 21st century marks an extremely interesting period of time. On one side we see many clear and present problems that, as this essay will discuss, show an accelerating gravitation toward ...
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The Top of the World
The core message of this enormous and enormously important book can be delivered in a few lines: Left to its own devices, wealth inevitably tends to concentrate in capitalist economies. There is no...
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Foodini Is A 3D Printer That Lets You Print Dishes With Fresh Ingredients
Foodini is a 3D printer for foodstuffs. Its Florida-based makers are hoping their time-saving device becomes as ubiquitous on kitchen countertops as the microwave oven has become. But instead of ...
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EFF Fights Destruction of Spying Evidence in Court Wednesday
UPDATE: Judge White today continued his temporary restraining order in these two cases until a more permanent order could be put in place. The question of whether the government improperly destroyed
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The Power of Photography to Witness
Photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale wants to make people angry; as angry as he is about Africa's first world war and the surprising way in which we are funding thi
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Fox News' Attempt To 'School' Jon Stewart On Food Stamp Abuse Blows Up On Them
During Thursday's episode of The Daily Show , host Jon Stewart replayed a clip from an earlier episode where he mocked Fox News for exaggerating the scope of so-called food stamp abuse. He then ...
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Michigan 'rape insurance' law goes into effect
A controversial new abortion law went into effect in Michigan on Thursday, requiring any woman who may want to seek help paying for the procedure to purchase a separate insurance policy. Under the ...
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It Saves Millions To Simply Give Homeless People A Place To Live
By Scott Keyes on March 24, 2014 at 1:09 pm " It Saves Millions To Simply Give Homeless People A Place To Live" Share: CREDIT: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert It is cheaper to give homeless people a home ...
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Pro-Romney Firm's Purchase Of Voting Machine Company Raises Alarms
A private equity company run by fervent supporters of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney bought the third-largest voting machine company in the country last July, raising concerns about the
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Welcome to the dead zone: Our planet's greatest cities are facing a major
Last week, Paris and Beijing had one of those feuds that city-watchers love so much. (Such head-to-head battles, like great inter-urban sporting events, fuel the illusion that cities are singular ...
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There Was an Oil Spill Around the Gulf Coast (Again)
S A commercial barge dumped close to 168,000 gallons of oil into a Texas bay after one of its tanks ruptured Saturday. The ship was towed to a safe area and Coast Guard officials say the leak is ...
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Westboro Baptist Church Protest Met With 'Sorry For Your Loss' Sign
Westboro Baptist Church members were met with a notable counter-protest at their first protest since the group's founder died: a sign that read "sorry for your loss." Counter-protesters held up the
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The Law That Makes It Illegal to Report on Animal Cruelty
A complaint filed Monday in federal court in Idaho challenging the state's new "ag-gag" law is one of the most compelling I have read in a long time. As much a history lesson and muckraking ...
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Venezuela Protests Drive Poor to Maduro as Death Toll Mounts
For bus driver Jorge Polo, the protests in Venezuela's capital city are an irritation, not an attraction. Every day, Polo has to navigate around the protesters' makeshift barricades in the wealthy ...
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Sparrows Point owners warned on environmental allegations
State environmental regulators say they are drafting a settlement with the owners of the Sparrows Point peninsula and a contractor after finding multiple alleged violations at the former steelmaking
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Make Public College Tuition-Free
Did you know that making college tuition-free would cost less than what we already spend on the patchwork of financial aid programs we currently support? According to a recent accounting taken by ...
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FBI investigating Senate staffers over alleged theft of CIA documents
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly taken the reins of a probe established to uncover the facts of an escalating scandal between the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States
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Cutting Off Extended Unemployment Benefits Was A Mistake, And Now The Economy's
The cutoff in extended unemployment benefits by Congress wasn't just vile, it explains much of the economic weakness so far this year. Before getting to the main subject of this post, let me say ...
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At The Merit Shop, You Pay With Creativity Instead Of Money
Do a handstand, tell a story, or show off any other talent you happen to have, and The Merit Shop will give you something in exchange. Calling itself a "little corner shop of anarchy," the project ...
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Money-free activist eyes party
Nelson mayoral candidate and moneyless economy advocate Richard Osmaston is petitioning to form a new political party in New Zealand and plans to stand for election in this year's general election ...