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Fox Orlando Affiliate Calls Neo-Nazis “a Civil Rights Group“
A Fox Orlando affiliate decribed Neo-Nazis as “a civil rights group” on a television broadcast and online. The group of Neo-Nazis, known as the National Socialist Movement, has been …
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American Crossroads Super PAC, Eyeing General Election, Aims Blitz at Obama
American Crossroads, the biggest of the Republican “super PACs,” is planning to begin its first major anti-Obama advertising blitz of the year, a moment the Obama re-election campaign has …
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As It Was Before Roe, So It Is Again: “Choice” Often Comes Down to Money
Evelyn Griesse doesn't hesitate when asked to explain why she started the South Dakota Access for Every Woman Fund, a small, grassroots group that provides direct financial assistance to …
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont Over GMO Labeling Bill
The world's most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont. Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont's Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators …
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Shale Shocked: “Remarkable Increase” In U.S. Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade“
A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team has found that a sharp jump in earthquakes in America's heartland appears to be linked to oil and natural gas drilling operations. As …
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Poetry, Plasticity, Philosophical Activism
The formula, “99 percent,” seems at once incredibly rhetorical and real. We are used to hyperbole; we are less used to an absurdly lop-sided figure that is actually matched …
Son of Frackenstein
In a few short years the term “fracking” went from obscurity, mostly mistaken for an obscenity, to a household word, now often associated with flammable tap water. The technology …
North Sea Gas Leak: Experts Assess Climate Impact of Ongoing Accident
The sizeable leak from a plugged well raises fresh concerns about accidents and methane's role in global warming. The French energy company Total estimates that its North Sea Elgin …
Who Put Tim DeChristopher in Isolation?
In late 2008 the Bush administration rushed to do one last favor for their friends in the oil and gas industry so the Bureau of Land Management held an …
Unarmed Black Woman Shot and Killed by Chicago Police Officer Less Than a Month After Trayvon Martin Shooting
Rekia Boyd."Her death certificate says killed by police, but I feel like my sister was murdered," says Martinez Sutton, whose 22-year-old little sister, Rekia Boyd, was shot in the …