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California Spends More on Jails Than Higher Education
As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than …
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Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup
The Department of Education paid $1.4 billion to collection agencies to hunt down defaulters, which includes nearly one in six borrowers.
The Liberal Way to Run the World – “Improve” or We’ll Kill You
In Anglo-American scholarship, influential theorists known as
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No Papers, No Fear: Undocumented Immigrant Activists Arrested Outside DNC
An immigrants rights campaign is traveling the U.S. by bus to bring awareness to the terror undocumented people live with daily.
Did Citigroup Defraud Billions from US Ally Abu Dhabi?
Abu Dhabi has likely learned an important lesson about how Wall Street does business. An investigative report reveals the company's nasty dealings.
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A Tale of Two Asylums: Assange, Palacio, and Media Hypocrisy
Two journalists and two cases of international asylum show the hypocrisy of the establishment press.
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Primal Outrage: Can Homo Sapiens Use Our Inherent “Inequity Aversion” to Topple the 1 Percent?
Humans are hardwired for deception, but we also share our primate cousins' predisposition to empathy and fairness.
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Goldcorp on Trial: First Ever People’s Health Tribunal Shows Commonalities Throughout Mesoamerica
Recently the International Peoplesu2019 Health Tribunal took place in Guatemala to discuss the injuries from the Marlin mine, an open pit gold mine that is one of the most …
Whitewashed: CIA’s Murder of Gul Rehman
Almost two and half years ago, I wrote about the murder of Abdul Manan Gul Rehman in a CIA black site facility known as the Salt Pit in Afghanistan. …
Pink Shrouds Aimed to Draw Attention to Iran Military Site, Analysts Say
Diplomats from an unidentified country and a Washington research organisation considered close to the International Atomic Energy Agency have alleged in recent weeks that Iran has covered two buildings …