All News Articles for 2013-08-13
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Suspicions Confirmed: CIA Had File on Chomsky Chomsky: "Someday it will be realized that systems of power typically try to extend their power in any way they can think of." Read more |
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Hope and Loss in Undocumented Group's Fight for Organ Transplants Organizer: "Health care is a human right, regardless of poverty, race, or legal status. This is a situation of life and death" Read more |
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Right Wing Media's Downward Spiral Conservative talkers like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are hemorrhaging stations and advertisers. Meanwhile, Fox News viewers are dropping off in droves. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio talks about the downfall of conservative media with progressive radio and TV host David Pakman. _____________________ Read more |
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As Heatwave Grips Northeast Asia, 'A Major Catastrophe' Underway Weather historian: 'I cannot think of any other heat event that has affected so many people for so long' Read more |
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Protesters Call Out Drone Lobby 'Complicity in Crime of Killing Innocent Civilians' Medea Benjamin: 'All those companies represented in that room are complicit in the crime of killing innocent civilians' Read more |
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Obama Appoints Documented 'Liar' to Convene NSA Review Board Investigation established by Clapper is part of president's so-called transparency reforms Read more |
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Breakthrough for Transgender Students' Rights in California LGBTQ, civil rights, and parent and teacher groups herald passage of transgender bill of rights as step towards full participation and equal access to education Read more |
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Snowden: NSA Story Needed the 'Courage' Major Media Outlets Have Abandoned Profile of journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald reveals power and responsibility of "fearless" journalism Read more |
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Philly's Ultimatum: Adequately Fund Our Schools or Face City-Wide Boycott Parent: 'We're looking at funding schools so that buildings can open, rather than funding schools that can educate children. That's a terrible and dangerous standard.' Read more |
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Does the US Pay Families When Drones Kill Innocent Yemenis? There have been nine drone strikes reported in Yemen in the past two weeks – an uptick apparently connected to the Al Qaeda threat that shut down U.S. Read more |
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John Kerry Tells Palestinians 'Not to Act Adversely' Over Continued Illegal Settlements Palestinian official: Settlement expansion "not just deliberate sabotage of the talks, but really a destruction of the outcome." Read more |
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Senate Committee Had Authority to Expose NSA All Along Provision allows committee to push for more declassified documents, they just never employ it Read more |
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March Turns Violent as Egypt's Political Crisis Holds Fast Clashes between rival factions continue as future of country remains perilous Read more |
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Over 100 Economists Call for Higher Minimum Wage The US has lowest minimum wage, and most young people without jobs, among wealthiest countries Read more |
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Critics Question Obama’s Vows to Reform Spying Programs 'Healthy dose of scepticism' needed to swallow presidential assurances on spy programs Read more |
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Lawsuits Fly as North Carolina Eviscerates State Voting Rights 'Taken together, this is the worst voter suppression law in the country. It viciously targets nearly every aspect of the voting process.' Read more |