All News Articles for 2014-01-29
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Monarch Butterfly in 'Grave Danger' Herbicides, deforestation and climate conditions putting the monarch in free fall Read more |
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Pete Seeger's Greatest Legacy? Saving New York's Hudson River River close to where Seeger lived in a log cabin he built himself in the 1940s was main focus of his environmental activism Read more |
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Showering in Formaldehyde? Fresh Fears in West Virginia Scientist says there's 'a lot more we don't know' about the safety of West Virginia water Read more |
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GOP Takes Another Swing at Healthcare for Millions of Women House passes legislation that would block private insurance coverage of abortion through healthcare exchanges Read more |
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Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Offers Radical Response to Obama Speech In rebuttal to State of the Union, Seattle's Kshama Sawant challenges key assumptions and policies presented in presidential address Read more |
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'Welcome to Apartheid': Music Video 'Checkpoint' Shot by Jasiri X in Palestine Jasiri X is a hip-hop emcee who hails from Pittsburgh and recently visited Palestine with a delegation of U.S.-based Black artists, activists, and writers — who you can read more about at their Black on Palestine Tumblr. Read more |
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Stay of Execution Granted After Missouri Hides Death Penalty Drug Source 'There can be no way of guaranteeing that the execution will not amount to torture. This begs the question of what states are really trying to hide.' Read more |
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Snowden Gets Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for 'Contributing to More Peaceful World Order' Two Norwegian members of Parliament say whistleblower's 'actions have in effect led to the reintroduction of trust and transparency as a leading principle in global security policies.' Read more |
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Forget $10.10... The Real Wage Fight Starts at $15 With a new focus on increasing wages, the deeper question of exactly how much more workers should be paid remains Read more |
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Geneva Talks Falter as Secret US Flow of Arms to Syrian Opposition Revealed Weapons were approved by Congress in closed-door meetings Read more |
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Obama's Address Fails to Look at Roots of Income Inequality President Obama's State of the Union address focused on expanding economic opportunities by raising the minimum wage, making college more affordable, and increasing economic mobility. But during the previous five years of the current economic recovery, income and wealth inequality has not only increased, but accelerated. That's according to economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Read more |
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'I'll Break You in Half. Like a Boy.' GOP Rep. Threatens Reporter "I'll break you in half.": Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) physically threatens a local news reporter after being asked question he doesn't like Read more |
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Obama's 2014 State of the Union Address President Obama delivered his 2014 State of the Union address on Jan. 28, 2014, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service : Read more |
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Progressives Chime in on the State of the Union As President Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address on Tuesday night, critical progressive observers let fly with their immediate reactions to the speech via Twitter. Disappointed by a political speech that was previewed as a call to action, what many critics on the left continue to point out is the deep gap between Obama's acknowledgement of certain problems that must be addressed and the milquetoast quality or contradictory nature of his proposals to fix them. Read more |