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Nobel Peace Laureates Slam Human Rights Watch’s Refusal to Cut Ties to US Government
Human Rights Watch's affiliation with ex-CIA and NATO officials generates perverse incentives and undermine its reputation for independence.
Cuban Ex-Guerilla Is Consultant for Venezuelan Economic Reform
Cuban economist and ex-guerilla combatant Orland Borrego, who fought alongside Che Guevara during the Cuban revolution, will be advising Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.
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Michigan, Nation Must Look at North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays“
Moral Mondays, spreading rapidly to other states, aim to help ordinary citizens take back their state governments from corporate-backed extremists.
A New Generation of Nuclear Subs
Despite President Obamas words about eliminating nuclear weapons, the US government continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal, including major new investments in a dozen state-of-the-art nuclear-armed submarines,
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Experts Say NSA Surveillance Compromises Internet Security; Here’s How to Protect Yourself
It's difficult to guarantee total protection from the prying eyes of the government online, but there are many tools out there that can help.
Dispatches From Freedom Summer: Ghosts of Greenwood
A reporter goes to Mississippi and encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights.
What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Abortion
“I stayed silent about my abortion for four years. After the Supreme Court's new round of assaults on reproductive rights, I'm speaking out.”
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Netanyahu’s War: What Is It Good For?
The administration knows full well that it has various levers to pull to respond to the Gaza crisis, manufactured by Benjamin Netanyahu for political ends, but it lacks sufficient …
Obama’s Failure and Richard Perle’s Whitewashing of the Iraq War
Richard Perle's recent statements indicate intellectual degeneration of a group that had once promised a “new Middle East,” only to destabilize the region with violent consequences.
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How to Leapfrog Carbon
The bottom line is that solar power and other renewable forms of energy are the energy of today and of the future, in both developed and developing nations.