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Healing Rwanda Through Community-Based Sociotherapy
Community based sociotherapy is understood as a way to help people come together to overcome or cure their problems.
Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists
Drones are now being used on US soil by the FBI, Secret Service, Texas Rangers and some local police forces.
Defeat of Ukraine Army Brings Cease-Fire, but Underlying Political Conflicts Unresolved
The cease-fire in Ukraine is good news, as is the resistance to both war and austerity. But winter is coming and many uncertainties remain.
Preparing to Asset-Strip Local Government? The Fed’s Bizarre New Rules
The Federal Reserve, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, just changed the liquidity requirements for the nation's largest banks.
Health and Hierarchy
Science shows that rigid hierarchies are bad for the health of everyone in them u2013 except those at the very top. But the good news is, cooperative values …
Updated – Michael Sam: Out of the Closet, Out of the NFL?
While the NFLu2019s first openly gay player, Michael Sam, has been picked up by the Dallas Cowboys, the leagueu2019s teams had shown hesitance to sign the talented defense, supposedly …
Cashing In On Carbon: How Taxpayer Dollars Greenwash Dirty Energy
A supposedly green proposed Texas plant will just burn coal and then sell its emissions to allow for the extraction of hard to reach oil, which in turn will …
Top Ten Things Congress Should Get Done This Fall (and Beyond)
After a five-week recess, lawmakers return to work on September 8. Congress has a lot on its plate and only a dozen legislative days before the November elections to …
St. Louis Police Shot 16 Before Michael Brown in 2014
Ferguson area police shot 16 people before shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown. In most cases in which race was known, the victim was black.
Willie Nelson and Neil Young Come to the Aid of Bold Nebraska
Country music legend Willie Nelson and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young will perform in Nebraska to help support activist efforts against the Keystone XL pipeline.