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A horrific amateur video appeared on YouTube, apparently showing an atrocity against public service workers in Syria. The footage displays a crowd of people callously throwing the bodies of slain postal workers from a post office rooftop.
The video, the s ...[Read more]
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The Pentagon remains unaudited, which will remain the case even after it meets its overdue and embarrassingly modest financial management goals - which by the way, it will do no time soon.
Scarcity of money is not their problem. Pentagon costs, taken tog ...[Read more]
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Journalist and professor D. Brian Burghart saw a gaping information hole when he realized no one knows how many civilians are killed by law enforcement every year. So he launched the database Fatal Encounters to keep track.
Aiyana Jones and Eugene Mallory ...[Read more]
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As the US, EU and Britain huff and puff in barrel loads of clichés: “red lines” are “crossed”, “sovereignty and territorial integrity” has been “violated”, they stand “shoulder to shoulder” with their Neo-Nazi counterparts in the inte ...[Read more]
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China Southern Airlines is the latest Chinese airline to post miserable year-end 2013 results. Net profit dropped 24% to 1.99 billion yuan ($321 million), and operating profit fell 70%. China Southern Airlines joins Air China, where net profit droppe ...[Read more]
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The labyrinthian design of the political network backed by the Koch brothers and their fellow conservative donors serves several purposes, but one of the biggest is to ensure the privacy of its financial backers. As we detailed last month, the money flows ...[Read more]
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Selina Todd: The rhetorical label 'hard-working families' has won Labour no voters and ignores the true nature of social change.
There's another reason why the appeal to "hard-working families" is an empty abstraction. Most people don't see hard work as a ...[Read more]
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Following criticism by The Electronic Intifada of how it handled Majd Kayyal’s case, The New York Times is forced to review its policies on observing Israeli gag orders censoring. ...[Read more]
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March 12, 2014 -- (TRN) -- Hackers from the group "Anonymous" have allegedly broken into the email account of a U.S. State Department attache' from the US Army and publicly released PROOF the United States is conducting state-sponsored terrorism inside Uk ...[Read more]
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Scientists are closer to pinpointing the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the disease killing off honeybees and threatening pollination of the world's crops. Their research is blaming two popular insecticides. ...[Read more]
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains the target of a multi-subject investigation by the FBI, new leaks have revealed. Assange has been unable to leave London's Ecuadorian Embassy since June 2012 amid fears he will handed over to US jurisdiction. ...[Read more]
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