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SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, Selected as a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year
SOIL is proud to announce that SOIL’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, was selected as a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Every year the …
Following DOE Approval, LNG Opponents Call on Oregon’s Governor to Protect the State’s Rivers and Ratepayers
The US Department of Energy took the long-expected step of granting a conditional export license to the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project in Oregon.
Invasion of the Data Snatchers
A future Internet of Things does have the potential to offer real benefits, but the dark side of that seemingly shiny coin is this: companies will increasingly know all …
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Obama Administration Faces Diplomatic Isolation in Latin America on Venezuela
If the Obama administration wants to improve its relations with the region, it could start by joining the rest of the hemisphere in accepting the results of democratic elections.
Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Echoing the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century, Australia is once again “removing” Aboriginal children from their families.
Campaign Financing: Can the US Follow Europe’s Example?
The US compares unfavorably to the many European countries that succeed in limiting the influence of corporate and other money in elections.
IMF’s Involvement Fuels Sudan’s Continued Unrest
IMF austerity policies, as well as policies that have supported foreign acquisition of Sudanese agricultural land, have increased poverty and civil unrest in Sudan.
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Privacy Tools: Mask Your Location
In the course of writing her book, Dragnet Nation, ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her privacy. In this series of book excerpts she distills her …
What Media Should Know About Hobby Lobby and the Fight for Contraceptive Access
Hobby Lobby, a secular, for-profit corporation, plans to wrongly argue before the Supreme Court today that emergency contraception, a form of preventive service like birth control that all health …
Bells Toll in Temple Town as India Braces for 2014 Elections
The world's most populous democracy will go to the polls from April 7 to May 12 to elect the lower House of parliament and ultimately determine the - at …