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Boston and Beyond
Noam Chomsky: It's rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily.
Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanians are speaking up, organizing, and doing what they can in the face of long odds and tough times.
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The Rule of Law in Times of Ecological Collapse
With mass species die-offs, threats to human food supplies, toxicity of air and water, along with deforestation and ocean destruction and the justifiably dominant concern of climate change causing …
CCR Appeals Post-9/11 Immigrant Detention Case Challenging Racial Profiling of Muslim, Arab, South Asian Men
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the decision of a federal court judge to dismiss a lawsuit against high-level Bush administration officials for their role in the post-9/11 …
2013 National Drug Strategy Released – Health Rhetoric Doesn’t Match “Lock ‘em Up” Reality
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (more commonly known as the Drug Czar's office; ONDCP) released its 2013 National Drug Control Strategy today. The strategy has …
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Watch Out, World! Even Amerika’s Wealthy Are Losing Ground: Cognitive Dissonance Among the US Sub-Elite Means More War and Death for Everyone Else
Occasionally the tip of the iceberg pokes through, and the reported facts corroborate the experience of most of the people. The recent Pew Center report that has now reached …
CCR Demands Obama Take Immediate Action Available to Him to Close Gitmo: Use Waiver, Transfer 86 Cleared Men, Lift Blanket Ban on Transfers to Yemen
Today, President Obama spoke about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it and despite the …
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Can a Drone Murder?
Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee hearing on drones was not your usual droning and yammering. Well, mostly it was, but not entirely. Of course, the White House refused to …
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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools
New York Public Schools has opted to allow a company owned by Rupert Murdoch and others to store demographic information on students including test scored.
Real Alternatives to an Unfair Economy: Putting People and the Planet Before Profits
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese give sustainable solutions for our economic downturn.