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In Conservatives’ Canada, It’s Not Easy Being Green
Canadau2019s police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal.
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Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
Many people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through …
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Coast Guard Finds Violations on Shell’s Arctic Drilling Rig
The Coast Guard found 16 violations on the Noble Discoverer, one of Shell's two drilling rigs for Alaska's Arctic waters.
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The Draft: A War-Killer
History shows that when we have a draft, our lawmakers are less enthusiastic to start wars, and more enthusiastic to end them quickly.
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What the 1% Heard During Obama’s State of the Union Speech
Obama's State of the Union address was such a speech - a pro-corporate agenda packaged with chocolate covered rhetoric for the masses; easy to swallow, but deadly poisonous.
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Fear of US Cuts Grows in States Where Aid Flows
States are increasingly alarmed that they could become collateral damage in Washington's latest fiscal battle.
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Citizens United 2.0? Supreme Court Could Further Open Door to Money in Politics
If the court sides with the challengers in McCutcheon v FEC, political power and influence in America would be further concentrated in the hands of just a few wealthy …
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The Failure of Multiculturalism and the Necessity of Democracy
Social practices that best deliver multiculturalism are those that at the same time may be regarded as enactments of democratic enfranchisement, the very thing that should inform the heart …
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One Thousand Days Too Many
Think of that, count it off . . . 1,000 days; that is how long Bradley Manning has been incarcerated without a trial. Even though he has been incarcerated …
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Pete Peterson’s “Fix the Debt” Astroturf Supergroup Detailed in New Online Resource from the Publishers of ALECexposed.org
One of the most hypocritical corporate PR campaigns in decades is advancing inside the beltway, attempting to convince the White House, Congress, and the American people that another cataclysmic …