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The Republican Plan To Invalidate Scientific Research
How are Republicans attempting to squash scientific facts that challenge their own agendas? By funding and generating alternate research that backs up their claims instead.
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The Debate: Independence or Partisanship
The relationship between the Democratic Party and people working for change may result in getting the progressive agenda onto the political agenda.
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A Transparent Shame: Why Isn’t This Watergate II?
A select Senate committee is charged with overseeing CIA skullduggery to insure, among other things, that it stays within the stretched confines of the Constitution. The CIA …
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After Unprecedented Claim of Legislative Immunity, Vukmir Releases ALEC Records, Pays Damages
After nearly a year of litigation, the Center for Media and Democracy has settled its open records lawsuit against American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) National Board member and Wisconsin …
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Spy Agencies, Not Politicians, Hold the Cards in Washington
On television, the story line is about a wicked political schemer, accompanied by his wicked wife. In the real world of Washington, however, politicians look more like impotent innocents …
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Selective Prosecution Claims in John Doe Filings Fall Flat
Wisconsin Club for Growth's allegations that prosecutors in a finance probe have engaged in politically-motivated "selective prosecution" don't stand up to even limited scrutiny.
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What’s Driving Putin and Obama’s Posturing on Ukraine?
The Real News Network's Jessica Desvarieux interviews a foreign policy expert on posturing by Obama and Putin over Crimea.
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Exclusive: NSA, FBI, DIA Sued over Refusal to Disclose US Role in Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, one of the nation's most prolific transparency activists, Ryan Shapiro, reveals he is suing the NSA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency in an attempt …
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Vulture Funds: Religious SCOTUS Filing on Argentina’s Behalf
Jubilee USA Network, a religious anti-poverty coalition, along with 78 other religious and development groups filed with the US Supreme Court in the case between Argentina and NML Capital.
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An Unconscious Truth Lurking in Ukraine
Just like the two galaxies that had been passing as one, what was originally thought to be a single country, presumed to be a unified body politic, has, in …