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Saudi prince defects: 'Brutality, oppression as govt scared of Arab revolts'
Saudi Arabia, a major supporter of opposition forces in Syria, has increased crackdown on its own dissenters, with 30,000 activists reportedly in jail. In an exclusive interview to RT a Saudi prince
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Has capitalism failed the world?
Head to Head is Al Jazeera's new forum of ideas - a gladiatorial contest tackling big issues such as faith, the economic crisis, democracy and intervention in front of an opinionated audience at the
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Asteroid near-miss reported by Russian scientists
A 15-meter asteroid, similar to the object that exploded above Russia in February, moving at a speed of 16km per second, was detected hours before it narrowly missed Earth over the weekend ...
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Elect Chokwe Lumumba Mayor
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Blueprints for a New Economy | The Nation
Civil Rights icon Ella Baker speaks at a news conference in 1968. Baker came up in the movement as a builder of parallel institutions. (AP Photo/Jack Harris) Across the United States, people ar...
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The sharing economy: a whole new way of living
In 2006, serial entrepreneur and investor Martín Varsavsky - inspired by a conviction that he could cloak the world in free Wi-Fi by encouraging people to share their home connections - founded Fon
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Locally Abundant (documentary film)
www.locallyabundantfilm.com In the summer of 2011, two young Maritimers, Justin Cantafio and Ryan Oickle, departed on a journey that would take them across Canada and back in just under four months
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UN: Food waste totals $750bn a year - Al Jazeera English
One-third of the food produced worldwide is wasted, costing the global economy around $750bn a year, a new report by the UN food agency said.
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Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt
Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data - and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. In December 2012, a pink-haired complex ...
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Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'
Researchers are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving
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'We're Really Screwed Now': NSA's Best Friend Just Shivved The Spies
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 ...
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General Strike USA
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 ...
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A French film crew visits a ghost town on Baltimore's harbor
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 ...
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Even The Daily Show Was Shocked by This Racist GOP Leader's Responses
The Daily Show's "field reporters" have dealt with a fair amount of hilariously oblivious responses from interviewees over the years, but on last night's show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi appeared to
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Welcome to Commonomics: How to Build Local Economies Strong Enough for Everyone
Chokwe Lumumba was an unlikely candidate for high office in Mississippi. But last June, the former Black Nationalist and one-time attorney to Tupac Shakur was elected Mayor of Jackson. He's now in ...
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Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream | The Nation
EMILY FLAKE It's time to put the taboo subject of public ownership back on the progressive agenda. It is the only way to solve some of the most serious problems facing the nation. We contend that
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Blueprints for a New Economy | The Nation
Civil Rights icon Ella Baker speaks at a news conference in 1968. Baker came up in the movement as a builder of parallel institutions. (AP Photo/Jack Harris) Across the United States, people ar...
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Hacked Documents Appear to Link U.S. Intelligence Agencies to Chemical Attack in
When dealing with intelligence - it is very difficult to discern fact from fiction. One important life lesson that every human being should learn at some point in their life is that propaganda ...
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THRIVE Solutions Hub
THRIVE Solutions Groups are self-organizing all over the world and now you can search for groups in your area, or start your own. THRIVE groups share best practices with each other, so you can ...
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Can the Internet Bring the Beginning of the End of Selfishness?
A new book from Yochai Benkler, one of the preeminent philosophers of the Internet, explores what compels people to cooperate Wikipedia presents a basic economic puzzle: why do tens of thousands of
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The Russians Prove Small Scale Organic CAN Feed the World
If you've already been through an economic collapse, you might know a thing or two about how to feed your family with little money. More importantly, you might know how to do it without pesticides ...
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A.F.L.-C.I.O. Has Plan to Add Millions of Nonunion Members
Richard L. Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., has a bold plan to reverse organized labor's long slide: let millions of nonunion workers - and perhaps environmental, immigrant and other ...
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Stunning NASA map reveals paths of 1,400 huge 'hazard' asteroids
A new map released by NASA has plotted the journeys of the majority of Earth's most potentially dangerous asteroids through space, creating a swirling spirograph of over 1,400 gigantic asteroids ...
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State legislators seek to create high-tech economy
Legislators hope to attract brain power to develop a high-tech-centered economy in Maryland, capitalizing on innovation to maximize job creation and revitalize communities.
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Every Yemen Drone Strike Creates 40 To 60 New Enemies For U.S.
NEW YORK -- A former State Department official in Yemen says every U.S. drone killing there of an al Qaeda operative creates 40 to 60 new enemies of America. In an article for the Cairo Review ...