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Supreme Court Denies Review of NSA Warrantless Surveillance Case
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would not hear Center for Constitutional Rights v. Obama, a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of people within the …
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Looking Back at the Successes (and Failures) of the Stimulus
Paul Krugman: My quick verdict remains the same as it was from the beginning: this was a plan that did considerable economic good, but also considerable political harm.
Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, United States in Regional Crisis
Russia is vowing to keep its troops in the Ukrainian region of Crimea in what has become Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.
Hundreds of Keystone XL Protestors Arrested, Look To Influence Obama’s Final Decision on Pipeline
Hundreds of students demand President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline deal, but Obama has already fast tracked the southern half of the pipeline which is currently delivering Canadian …
Inside the Secret Wall Street Society of the 1%
Kevin Roose talks about sneaking into a secret wall street society initiation and what he learned from the experience.
Red Baiting Continues Long After End of the Cold War
Despite the fact that we assume the Cold War is long over, both contemporary propaganda as well as US actions belie that “fact,” as evidenced by current US anti-communist …
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Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture
What is necessary is a “systematic redesign of how we get our staple food crops,” Shepard says.
Five New Reasons Monsanto’s “Science” Doesn’t Add Up
How long can Monsanto ignore the mounting actual scientific evidence that their technology is not only failing to live up to its promises, it's putting public health at risk?
Cutting Through Fukushima Fog: Radiation in US?
From the very beginning of this catastrophic emergency, the public in Japan and around the world have not been told the full story of what's been happening at the …
Ten Years After the Coup in Haiti, Democracy Is Still Under Siege
Ten years after the coup d'etat that ousted the democratically-elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, political persecution and repression continue.