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A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link
Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government's ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges ...
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15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy
Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and ...
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Fixing a Neighborhood by Strengthening Its Social Ties
Sophie Quinton This article is part of a weeklong America 360 series on Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE--The northwest side of Milwaukee isn't a place where you expect to find a peach orchard and rooftop solar
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Growing up poor and stressed impacts brain function as an adult
Childhood poverty and chronic stress may lead to problems regulating emotions as an adult, according to research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Our ...
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Former top executive at Deutsche Bank found hanged at his Kensington home
Body of William 'Bill' Broeksmit discovered at his house in London He retired in February and was a former senior manager at the bank 58-year-old was close to Deutsche Bank co-chief executive Anshu
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Whose busted pipe is gushing water near Key Highway?
In the last few days there have been sewage leaks or broken water pipes in East, West and North Baltimore. Today we can add South Baltimore to the list, where water has been spewing out of a manhole
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Co-ops, a love story
I devote a lot of time here to talking about cooperatives, and sometimes people ask me, "But what do cooperatives have to do with freelancers?" I admit the connection between an agricultural ...
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Will Old People Take Over the World?
One of the consequences of radical life extension is the potential for a gerontocracy to set in - the entrenchment of a senior elite who will hold on to their power and wealth, while dominating ...
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Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it's really bad news
So what is with all the dying bees? Scientists have been trying to discover this for years. Meanwhile, bees keep dropping like... well, you know. Is it mites? Pesticides? Cell phone towers? What is
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Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food
Find locally grown produce anywhere in the country! Use our map to locate farmers markets, family farms, CSAs, farm stands, and u-pick produce in your neighborhood.
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Time for an Economy, Of, By and For the People
The reaction to Ben Bernanke's suggestion that it may be time to wind down the easy money policies which have been injecting $85 billion into the hands of Wall Street each month show that the 'reco...
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Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal
Combat the epidemic of misinformation that plagues the corporate media! Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to Truthout and keep independent journalism strong. Feeling anxious about life in
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Revealed: UK secretly arrested 16-year old boy for world's 'biggest' DDoS-attack
In a surprise development, it has been reported that several months ago Britain's National Cyber Crime Unit "secretly" arrested a 16-year-old London schoolboy on suspicion of being involved in the ...
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Scott Walker's Fiscal Irresponsibility Will Now Cost Wisconsin Billions As
People in Wisconsin were alarmed when the Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge began to sag. This has now forced the shutdown of the I-43 corridor along Green Bay, and the rerouting of the 40,000 vehicles it ...
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Beyond money: living without the illusion of independence
Money separates us from what we consume and hides us from the impacts of our behaviour. But there is an economic model that could not only bring us closer to each other and to the effects of how we
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Generation W (Whistleblowers), Ages 18 - 34, Believes Snowden Did a Good Thing
According to a thoughtful "opinionator" September 15 commentary in the New York Times (NYT), Northwestern University Philosophy Professor Peter Kudlow refers to a TIME article this summer that found
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Philadelphia Raises Stakes With Plan to Reverse Blight
PHILADELPHIA - With an estimated 40,000 abandoned houses, lots and commercial buildings, Philadelphia wants to consolidate its inventory of distressed real estate by creating a "land bank" to make ...
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Brazilian president: US surveillance a 'breach of international law'
Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of ...
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The Social Costs of Fracking
Pennsylvania's natural gas boom has brought thousands of new gas wells, a number of transient workers and a host of social problems. Food & Water Watch found that traffic accidents, civic ...
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Talking Union
by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Jeff Crosby The AFL-CIO Convention in September took an important turn to reposition unions toward speaking for all working people in the United States. This was a correcti...
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The Abolition of Poverty in Switzerland: A Template for Europe?
For the past 18 months people all over Switzerland have been campaigning for the "Citizens' Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income". Today the result of their efforts will be handed to the ...
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Popular BitTorrent site isoHunt shutdown, forced to pay $110 million
After more than a decade of facilitating a search of BitTorrent files and eluding copyright enforcers, isoHunt has agreed to shut down all of its international operations and pay the entertainment ...
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So Maybe Jon Stewart Isn't The Biggest Obamacare Fan
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was grilled by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" on Monday, where she appeared to address glitches that have ...
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Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison - Slashdot
coolnumbr12 writes "In a recent New York Times article called 'No TV? No Subscription? No Problem?' Jenna Wortham noted how she used, 'the information of a guy in New Jersey that I had once met in a
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Bernie Sanders: "Global warming is a far more serious problem than Al Qaeda"
Playboy Magazine is not my top news source by any stretch, but when they do something truly "juicy" like this interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), it suddenly becomes impossible to put down. ...