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Activists Working to Transform LA County Sheriffs Hope Changes Will Apply for the Entire Country
Los Angeles activists' vigorous push to reform the violent and corrupt Sheriff's Department may develop into an effective national program to reduce police violence, racism and classism.
The Rights of Journalists in Decline Around the Globe
While the name makes it seem like a great idea, in reality the Journalist Shield Law poses a threat to free journalism in the States.
Mexico and Monsanto: Taking Precaution in the Face of Genetic Contamination
Studies have found the presence of transgenes in native maize in nearly half of Mexico's states.
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The Government-Corporate Complex: Surveillance for the Money
Had the NSA developed the in-house and inexpensive Thin Thread program instead of alternatives dictated by financial interests, September 11 might have been foiled and the Fourth Amendment still …
Let Them Eat Carbon: Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits
As concern over climate change begins to lower the demand for fossil fuels in the US and Europe, fossil fuel companies are accelerating their sales to developing nations, where …
EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry “Escape Route” Around Looming Pesticide Ban
Documents reveal that the health commission of the European Union is attempting to develop a procedural “escape route” to evade an upcoming EU-wide ban on endocrine disrupting pesticides.
Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Care Who’s Going to Congress, and That’s a Bad Thing
A pox on both houses. That seems to be the general feeling of almost half of Americans when it comes to a preference on who controls Congress after the …
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Derailing the Dynasty Train
In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.
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The Future of Food?
Global agricultural projection needs to increase by 70 percent, at a minimum, by 2050 in order to keep apace with a projected 40 percent increase in population by that …
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Chris Hedges | Thomas Paine, Our Contemporary
Thomas Paine never veered from the proposition that liberty meant the liberty to speak the truth even if no one wanted to hear it.