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The Times Are Urgent: Let's Slow Down
The system is not the cause of our problems, it is a consequence of our separation from each other. It is a consequence of our complicity with our own destruction. In other words, we are the system
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The value of radicals
Amy Huva The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise enters the Northern Sea Route (NSR) off Russia's coastline to protest against Arctic oil drilling. © Will Rose / Greenpeace Often these days, I hear ...
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Here Are All The Times Congress Screwed Americans This Year In The Name Of
WASHINGTON -- As the year winds to a close, Congress is cautiously celebrating passing a year-end budget that relieves just about a third of the sequestration cuts. But those cuts, along with a slew
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Why I'm Fighting to Stop Deportations Outside of Congress
This past month, I left my job in Congress to return to community organizing. After the country helped stop my mother's deportation, I came to realize that our community and the American people have
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Popular Resistance Newsletter - Real Change Is Closer Than You Think
In recent years there has been a global awakening of people understanding that big finance capitalism's neo-liberal model of privatization and corporatization while defunding public programs and ...
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Remaking the North American Food System
Examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption. With examples from Puerto Rico to Oregon to Quebec, this work offers a North ...
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'Embarrassed' to use Facebook: Teens shift to other sites to 'unfriend' with
Older teenagers have turned their backs on Facebook, an EU-funded study has found. Young people are opting for alternative social networks like Twitter and WhatsApp, while the "worst people of all ...
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13 Major Clean Energy Breakthroughs of 2013
While the news about climate change seems to get worse every day, the rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march
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'Getting the ungettable': Leaks reveal NSA's top hacking unit
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden have uncovered a secret NSA hacking unit which delivered the US some of its most significant intelligence information in recent years. The unit has been tapping ...
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Pouring Cheese on Icy Roads in (Where Else?) Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE - In a state whose license plates advertise it as America's Dairyland, where lawmakers once honored the bacterium in Monterey Jack as the state's official microbe and where otherwise sober
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Fatal error in 'wedding party' drone strike prompts UN condemnation
UN human rights experts have called on the US and Yemen for transparency and accountability over the use of drones, particularly in view of a recent operation, when a wedding procession was ...
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Judge's Decision Is Disappointing, But Fight Over Program's Legality Is Not Over
After the D.C. District Court found the NSA's record collection program unconstitutional just last week, we are obviously disappointed and disagree with Judge Wiliam H. Pauley's decision in ACLU v ...
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One Hundred Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Federal Reserve a Public Utility
One Hundred Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Federal Reserve a Public Utility December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100 th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has ...
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America's PhDs On Foodstamps
When job hunting in one's field turns tough, college graduates may return to school for another degree (even in economics). But for some Americans, multiple degrees won't guarantee a job in their ...
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NSA's Domestic Surveillance Is Motivated by Fears That Environmental Disasters
Top secret US National Security Agency ( NSA) documents disclosed by the Guardian have shocked the world with revelations of a comprehensive US-based surveillance system with direct access to ...
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The PiY Revolution. A World of Abundance.
Here's some advice you don't hear often: Use all the energy, water, and food you desire. No really. Do it. However, there is one catch. In order to follow this advice, you will need to Produce it ...
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NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy By Bricking Computers Across The
The National Security Agency described for the first time a cataclysmic cyber threat it claims to have stopped On Sunday's "60 Minutes."Called a BIOS attack, the exploit would have ruined, or ...
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Facebook Wants to Know Why You're Self-Censoring Your Posts
A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook: Do you think that facebook tracks the stuff that people type and then erase before hitting ? (or the "post" button) Good question. We ...
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Housing: It's a Wonderful Right
This is usually one of my favorite times of the year - the holidays are approaching, the aromas of cinnamon, orange and cranberry are in the air and it's time to rest and watch old movies on TV. One
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Computer glitch blamed for 'hundreds' of wrongful arrests
A class action in the Supreme Court will look at whether NSW police wrongfully arrested and detained a number of teens due to a long standing glitch in the NSW Police computer system. Wendy Carlisle
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There's A New (Old) Way To Think About Money. Are You Ready For It?
Sick of the craptastic state of our economy? Perhaps some new ideas will cheer you up! (Why do I sound like an infomercial? I have no idea, but I'm goin' with it.) Author Charles Eisenstein has some
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Fracking test site in Greater Manchester blockaded with giant wind turbine blade
This morning fifty pro-renewables campaigners delivered a 17 metre, 1.5 tonne wind turbine blade as "Christmas gift" for fracking company IGas. The entrance to the Barton Moss test site has been ...
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The Shower Of The Future Cuts Water Waste To Almost Nothing
Showering is fun, but it does rack up the water bill. The average family goes through 40 gallons of water a day in the shower. We've come across a few ways to monitor and manage showers recently ...
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Pope Francis Labels Capitalism "New Tyranny", But Is It More Than Rhetoric?
Matthew Fox and Luke Hansen discuss Pope Francis' recent anti-capitalist rhetoric and whether there will be any changes to the church's economic practices
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Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation Now
The passage of time since September 11, 2001, has not diminished the distrust many of us feel surrounding the official story of how 9/11 happened and, more specifically, who financed and supported ...