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Unintended Audience: Raffi Urges Protecting Kids From Facebook, Social Media
In book excerpt, the sage of children's music advises that social media are changing family life, youth peer relations and how people experience life, yet we have no clear …
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How the Occupy Movement Began: The Full Account
Author Nathan Schneider traces the origins of Occupy Wall Street and identifies many of those who were instrumental in the genesis of the movement.
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Monsanto, Rural Debt and the Suicide Epidemic in India
Belen Fernandez's Project Censored 2014 winning article exposes the myriad ways Monsanto destroys lives rather than ‘improves’ them, as it boasts.
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Mexican Communities Resist Environmentally Destructive Canadian Mining Companies
Indigenous Mexicans are being pushed out of their country by global corporate forces, says David Bacon, in
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When the Police Become a Standing Army, Liberty is Sacrificed Without Security
A shift to militaristic and arguably unconstitutional policing would have shocked the conscience of America's founders, according to Radley Balko in his book
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Shake a Stick in Post-Financial Collapse America, and One Hits Poverty
National ‘austerity’ pressure to further cut the social safety net only increases the plight of US citizens struggling to survive, as Sasha Abramsky discusses in this excerpt from his …
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Fighting Back Against Predatory Lenders Is a Struggle for Justice
In “A Dream Foreclosed,” Laura Gottesdiener looks at the decimating impact of the loss of houses, property and community caused by the foreclosure crisis.
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Freedom Cannot Exist Alongside a Massive Surveillance Industrial Complex: They Are Incompatible
Once a massive spying apparatus is in place that functions with minimum oversight, who is to keep it from being used for domestic and political and economic agendas in …
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Money and the Corporate Media Are Gagging Democracy
“This the truth of [election] 2012: money beat money,” write John Nichols and Robert McChesney.
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Myths About Illicit Drugs Perpetuate Destructive Policy
The war on drugs is often more harmful to the users than the illicit substances that they use.