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John Pilger | It’s the Other Oscars – and Yet Again the Winner Slips Away
John Pilger: “Most movies are fueled by money, marketing and something called celebrity, which is different from talent.”
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Chris Hedges | Military Metaphysics: How Militarism Mangles the Mind
Chris Hedges: “The US military has won the ideological war. The nation sees human and social problems as military problems.”
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The Attack of the Robots: Economists’ Silly Fantasies
Dean Baker: “If we adjust patent laws to better serve the economy we can ensure that robots and other technological breakthroughs make most of the world richer not poorer.”
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Is Freeing a Duck Terrorism?
The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act and ag-gag initiatives stand on the shoulders of a century of similar efforts to marginalize animal protectionists as threats to American security.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn’t Have to Die
Fighting heroin addiction and drug addiction should be dealt with in the most practical fashion possible. That's why the United States should start its own heroin prescription program as …
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Left Out of Obama’s Commission on Elections? Race
Right now it's easier for a black teenager to go to jail than it is for him to vote.
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Why Is the CDC Trying to Block an Accurate Lyme Disease Test?
A good Lyme test would go a large way to ending the wars, because at some point in the debate one side is right and the other is wrong.
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Cut Off the NSA’s Juice
This is a struggle for power over what kind of future can be created for humanity; it's time to stop giving juice to Big Brother.
Largest Air Pollution Rally in US History Goes Down on Utah’s Capitol Hill
People are literally dropping over dead in the streets along the Wasatch Front from Utah's absolutely debilitating and deadly air pollution crisis.
Not a Hacker or Whistleblower? Here’s How You Can Still Liberate Secret Documents
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them.