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Amazon – at What Cost?
It has been a year since workers at the largest Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline were found camping out in tents in the woods, unable to afford rising rents. Once again the Amazon warehouse is back in the news. ...[Read more]
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Ex-Agent Admits CIA Played Role in Nelson Mandela’s 1962 Arrest
The former CIA operative revealed he gave the tip leading to Mandela's arrest. The African National Congress says the CIA is still operating against them. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the 1962 arrested of anti-apartheid crusader an ...[Read more]
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Republicans Now Turn Their Attention to Deregulating Wall Street With Key Hearing Tuesday
With GOP tax plan moving ahead and the Obamacare fight in the rearview mirror, Republicans in Congress are setting their sights next on deregulating Wall Street. Ten Democrats have co-sponsored a bill that would deregulate Wall Street. That makes the GOP- ...[Read more]
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The man who could doom Internet: Ajit Pai ignores outcry from all sides
Over the last few weeks, critics have attacked Ajit Pai online, protesters have covered his house in cardboard signs and he has publicly squabbled with celebrities including Alyssa Milano, Mark Ruffalo and Cher. Why? Because Pai, the chairman of the Feder ...[Read more]
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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual dist ...[Read more]
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Why are America’s farmers killing themselves in record numbers?
We were growing food, but couldn’t afford to buy it. We worked 80 hours a week, but we couldn’t afford to see a dentist, let alone a therapist. I remember panic when a late freeze threatened our crop, the constant fights about money, the way light swe ...[Read more]
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Kumbh Mela: India’s Mass Pilgrimage Listed as Intangible Heritage by UNESCO
The Kumbh Mela is held at four different sacred locations in India every three years. The mass pilgrimage returns to one location every twelve years. The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad in 2013 attracted a record crowd of 100 million. ...[Read more]
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Syria – ISIS Is Defeated
The Islamic State in Syrian and Iraq is officially defeated. The UN resolution which allowed other countries to fight ISIS within Syria and Iraq no longer applies. But the U.S. military, despite the lack of any legal basis, wants to continue its occupatio ...[Read more]
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The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened
How did "multiple sources" all innocently feed the same false information to multiple media outlets? The refusal of CNN and MSNBC to say only compounds the damage they caused. Friday was one of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long ...[Read more]
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Heart-Wrenching Video Shows Starving Polar Bear on Iceless Land
When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived on Baffin Island in late summer, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed ...[Read more]
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The US Military Is the Biggest Entitlement Program on the Planet
The US economy is caught in a trap. That trap is the Department of Defense: an increasingly sticky wicket that relies on an annual, trillion-dollar redistribution of government-collected wealth. In fact, it's the biggest "big government" program on the pl ...[Read more]
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