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The Data Hackers: Mining Your Information for Big Brother
Inside your mobile phone and hidden behind your web browser are little known software products marketed by contractors to the government that can follow you around anywhere.
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The Striking Challenge of Fracking: Who Does It Benefit and Who Gets Hurt
Two experts on fracking debate the controversial topic with strong u2014 and sometimes opposing u2014 points of view as part of a new collaborative media project.
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The Reality of the Affordable Care Act
While Republicans were throwing their silly tantrum, Obamacare became a fact. There is no turning back.
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Breaking Away: Top Public Universities Push for “Autonomy” From States
Oregonu2019s three largest state schools are in the process of breaking away from the rest of the public system.
We Belong Together Campaign Brings Feminism Into Immigration Reform
The We Belong Together campaign is helping to redefine immigration reform as a women's issue.
Noam Chomsky | On Shutdown, Waning US Influence, Syrian Showdown
Noam Chomsky gives his perspective on the US government shutdown, the Syrian civil war, capitalist reform in South America and more in a Truthout interview.
Empire Under Obama: Political Language and the “Mafia Principles” of International Relations
Andrew Gavin Marshall draws upon Noam Chomsky's suggestion of understanding international relations as the application of ‘Mafia Principles’ to foreign policy.
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Let’s Stop Starving Drug Offenders Back to Prison
Many states ban stamps for ex-prisoners, who face a 50% unemployment rate, making prison the only sure place they won't starve.
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American Craziness and Class Warfare
Paul Krugman: The monster the wealthy created has turned on its creators.
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Kings, Warlords and Theocrats Have No Place in America
The slow descent to the right after the Reagan revolution has diminished America's sense of democracy and replaced it with an outdated system of feudalism.