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It was supposed to be simple – the US was going to apply the Afghanistan playbook in Ukraine against Russia. It was going to bog it down in a low-level conflict that would starve it of money and resources. It would strain the Russian society and it woul ...[Read more]
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Wikileaks caused Iraqi government to change mind about letting U.S. troops stay in iraq. After leaked cables showed that u.s. troops have executed iraqi civilians, including a 70 year old woman and an infant, making it close to impossible reaching an agre ...[Read more]
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"A new U.S. survey sponsored by the American Assembly has revealed that piracy is both common and accepted. The surveys findings show that 46% of adults and 75% of young people have bought, copied, or downloaded some copyright infringing material. 70% of ...[Read more]
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Curious results from University of California, Berkeley shows that, rich/privileged people are more likely to behave in immoral manners compared to lower socioeconomic classes.
Observers of human nature have long puzzled over the possibility of an ethica ...[Read more]
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Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the US effort to push foreign governments to approve genetically engineered (GE) crops and promote the worldwide interests of agribusiness ...[Read more]
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Following the announcement that the European Parliament would be voting on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) during June without consulting the European Court of Justice to review the legislation, there has been progress in trying to delay th ...[Read more]
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Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. The Washington Post reported there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working on domestic counterterrorism. Most collect information on peo ...[Read more]
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The US says it has deployed a number of its most modern jet fighters to an air base in Southwest Asia. The announcement alarmed many, who suspect the base is actually in the United Arab Emirates just 200 hundred miles from Iran.
The Air Force did not spe ...[Read more]
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An author who published through harlequin recites her experience on how little she was able to make over hundreds of thousands of book sales.
" ........ Let me share with you the numbers of a book I wrote that was first published in January, 2002, still ...[Read more]
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In an example case which showed that police was arresting people on false charges in order to prevent them from filming the abuse of police power, Citizen journalist proved that he was falsely arrested by police.
In the first major legal victory for thos ...[Read more]
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The amount of radioactive materials released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost two and a half times the initial estimate by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on Thursday.
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