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Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About Obama’s Detainee Policies (2)
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Half of Vets Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Need Medical Attention
(Photo: RunItsTheFuz / Flickr) More than half of America's former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with medical and mental problems that need treatment, according …
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Berkeley Activist Hit by Police Explains How Several UC Regents Profit from Higher Levels of Student Debt
Earlier today, OccupyCal protesters at the University of California Berkeley staged a mass “teach-in” and protest to stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, and to rebuke …
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No Speedy Trial for Bradley Manning, Now in Pre-Trial Confinement for 560 Days
Five months ago, on April 22, 2011, over 400 citizens converged on Quantico Marine Base to protest the pre-trial conditions of alleged Wikileaks whistleblower US Army Private First Class …
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Beyond Apocalypse and Back to Earth
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Re-Occupy, ASAP
What a welcome relief the Occupy movement’s trend of “leaderless” groups! True, this seemingly contradictory concept is difficult to absorb in a culture the promotes a leadership style that …
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A Rising Sea Threatens Pacific Islands
New York - As world leaders gear up to spend the coming weeks in South Africa haggling over economically bearable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already …
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Repatriation Con Games
Lobbyists are storming Capitol Hill, pushing a tax holiday that would give billions of dollars in tax breaks to less than 1 percent of American businesses – and stick …
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Nicaragua’s Top Cop, Who Once Wanted to be a Nun, Fends Off Drug Gangs
Managua, Nicaragua - Even as drug gangs are taking control of wide swaths of other Central American countries, a gentle and unassuming 60-year-old grandmother appears to have held them …
Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at US Airports
The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the …