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The great 1980s Dungeons & Dragons panic
In an era of potent concern over internet pornography, cyber-bullying, and drugs, it is hard to imagine a game being controversial. But 30 years ago Dungeons & Dragons was the subject of a full-on ...
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Wal-Mart to HP Reap Worker Political Donations Through Charities
U.S. companies, forbidden to give money directly to political action committees, are taking advantage of controversial federal rules allowing them to ask employees to do it for them in exchange for
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Journalist Barrett Brown Agrees to Plea Deal Which Includes New Charge Stemming
There has been no acknowledgment by his attorney who is under a gag order, but journalist and writer Barrett Brown, who has been jailed for over a year and a half, has reportedly agreed to the terms
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Newly Revealed Portions of CIA Torture Manual: Doctoring Tapes, Foreign
Describing interrogation techniques and approaches used during the Cold War, an old 1960s CIA counterintelligence interrogation manual advised covertly photographing the interrogation subject and ...
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Hopkins workers strike over wages, working conditions
Every two weeks, Johns Hopkins Hospital housekeeping worker Yolanda Kelly says she overdrafts her bank account just to pay her bills on time. On Wednesday, Kelly blew on a plastic whistle and ...
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In A Twist, Gov Expected To Sign Marijuana Decriminalization Bill
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) is expected to sign a marijuana decriminalization bill passed by the Maryland General Assembly Monday, the Washington Post reports. In January, O'Malley said he was
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Cecily McMillan Occupy Assault Trial Gets Underway in New York
'An Occupy Wall Street activist charged with assaulting a police officer is a 'promoter of non-violence' who wandered into a tussle with law enforcement while celebrating St Patrick's Day, her ...
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Wrongly convicted man released after 25 years because of Disney World hotel
A wrongly imprisoned man has been released after decades in prison thanks to exonerating evidence that proved he was thousands of miles from the scene of the crime, on vacation to a theme park in ...
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Comcast named Worst Company in America on the same day it files TWC merger
Talk about incredible timing! On the same day that Comcast and Time Warner Cable are filing their merger proposal paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission, Consumerist has announced tha...
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Global Rankings Study Depicts an America in Warp Speed Decline
If America needed a reminder that it is fast becoming a second-rate nation, and that every economic policy of the Republican Party is wrongheaded, it got one this week with the release of the Social
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Inflation May Hit the Poor Hardest
It's getting more expensive to be poor. Over the past two years, prices have risen more quickly for many of the things that low-income households spend a lot of their money on, such as rent and uti...
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Impunity in West Virginia As Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them - one of many company crimes for which
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Billionaire suggests rich should get more votes
Billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins has a new idea for voting rights in America: if you have more money, you get more votes.
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William Falk: We're Finished. Now What?
By William Falk / Deep Green Resistance I don't know how to write this, but it looks like humanity is finished. Many of us know it in our hearts. We watch as civilization marches us to the edge of ...
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Obama signs landmark legislation ending public funding of political conventions
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2014- A day after the Supreme Court of the United States declined to limit federal campaign donations by upholding Citizens United, President Obama quietly signed into law
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Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Get Updates The Solutions Network mobilizes scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable development problem solving at local ...
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Artists install massive poster of child's face in Pakistan field to shame drone
By Tom BoggioniSunday, April 6, 2014 17:40 EDT An artists collective has unfurled a massive poster showing a child's face in a heavily bombed area of Pakistan in the hopes that it will give pause to
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The climate has already begun to change - and our response must, too
Our current weather, and the damage caused by the appalling floods across Britain, changes everything. Or at least it should. Perhaps it should have done long before, when the hurricane hit Haiti ...
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German 'NSA-proof' private server raises $1mn crowdfunding in 89 minutes
Developers of secure server Protonet asked for some $136,000 on a local crowdfunding website - and were rewarded with $1 million in an hour and a half. The record campaign, one year after Snowden's
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Constitutional collateral damage: Lawsuit over American drone deaths tossed out
Serious issues regarding constitutional law rose to the surface on Friday as a US federal judge dismissed a court case against the US government by families of three Americans killed in US drone ...
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Strike the Root of Injustice: Abby Martin's Conscious Dissent Against War
With the controversy surrounding the recent Ukrainian coup and Crimean incursion, the wheels of war are turning once again, churning up an old foe. If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of ...
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Welcome To The Purpose Economy
I'm not an economist, a sociologist, or a psychologist. I am an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs constantly look for opportunities, hoping to find emerging trends or spot inspiration for new products or
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NSA whistleblower journalist criticizes agency's staged leaks
Reeling from the leak of classified data, NSA officials have anticipated future leaks by sometimes announcing them to the media preemptively, a minimization tactic according to one of the ...
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What the Media Gets Wrong About San Francisco's Gentrification Battles
Over the past few months, stories about San Francisco have become ubiquitous in the national media. Everyone wants to weigh in on what's being called the San Francisco " culture war." Last week, PBS