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Childhood Friend of Ezell Ford Demands Apology After Police Wrongly Claim He Is a Gang Member
A Los Angeles-based rapper and protester of recent police killings says he fears becoming a target of gang violence because police falsely identified him as a member of the …
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Dahr Jamail | Tortured and Raped by Israel, Persecuted by the United States
Rasmea Odeh was arrested and tortured by the Israel Defense Forces in 1969 when she was 22 years old. Today, Odah is on trial in the United States and …
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Can Tiny Houses Solve Homelessness in Portland?
The city of Portland recently announced it is seeking to provide tiny houses to convince people currently residing in Portland's “tent cities” to relocate to the permanent structures.
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New Documents Undermine Walker Statements on Criminal Probe
Despite claims that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not a “target” in the state's criminal campaign finance probe, newly-released documents demonstrate that prosecutors are indeed looking at his potentially …
Resisting the Surveillance State in Germany
On Saturday, August 30, more than 6,000 people took to the streets of Berlin, Germany to protest against intelligence agencies' mass surveillance.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: When Big Oil Pays for Its Disasters, the Environment May Recover, and More
When Big Oil is forced to pay for their disasters, the environment has a much better chance to recover, and more.
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In Senate-CIA Fight on Interrogation Report, Another Controversy
The background of a key negotiator in the battle over a Senate report on the CIA's use of torture has sparked concerns about the Obama administration's objectivity in handling …
How Midwives on Sierra Leone’s Almost Untouched Turtle Islands are Improving Women’s Health
Marie Stopes is a British-based non-profit that provides family planning and reproductive health services to over 30 countries around the world, including the tiny, hard-to-reach Turtle Island in Sierra …
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Hawaii’s GMO Battle: Federal Judge Strikes Down Kauai’s Pesticide Regulations
The anti-GMO forces in Hawaii were dealt a blow when a federal judge stuck down a local ordinance regulating pesticide use where four of the world's largest agrichemical companies …
Mary Anne Grady Flores and the Drones of Upstate New York
Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 58-year-old grandmother of three, was sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base near her home.