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Stephen Hawking Confirms Support of Israel Boycott
Phyllis Bennis: Hawking's boycott of Israel will shake Israeli public the way sports boycott affected South Africa.
Pentagon Study Finds 26,000 Military Sexual Assaults Last Year, Over 70 Sex Crimes Per Day
A shocking new report by the Pentagon has found that 70 sexual assaults may be taking place within the U.S. military every day.
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Patent Filing Claims Solar Energy “Breakthrough“
Maryland inventor claims that his new patent will finally reduce America's dependency on fossil fuels.
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Local Fights Against Austerity Are Growing Across the US
You cannot lift up a nation's economy while slashing away at its consumers' pocketbooks.
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What Is the Crash Generation?
Millennials who came of age during the Great Recession could reshape the American economy.
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New York’s Zoning Ban Movement Fracks Big Gas
Frackivists won victories when an appellate court upheld the right to use zoning laws to ban gas drilling.
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Oaxacan Teachers Challenge the Test
The testing regime in Mexico is as entrenched as it is in the United States.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: 11 States Have Affirmed That Gay Rights Are Civil Rights, and More
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Eleven states have affirmed that gay rights are civil rights; President Obama will have to fight the GOP to raise our debt ceiling; …
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In the Wake of West, Texas: 1,000 Toxic Chemical Accidents You Have Not Heard Of
The April 17 explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 15 people and injured 200 was perhaps one of the most severe chemical accidents of its …
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Pollin Responds to Reinhart and Rogoff; Cuts Deepen and Stock Market Soars
Bob Pollin: NYT Op-ed defending study repeats errors; theoretical basis for austerity has been exposed yet massive cuts in public spending continue.