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The UN's Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released a report showing that Israeli settlers in the West bank have taken over dozens of natural springs from Palestinians there, preventing access to essential water sources.
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America's First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but many journalists covering some of the country's major events are being hounded, rather than protected. An increasing number are reportedly being arrested, just for doing their jobs. Anastasia ...[Read more]
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As one probe ends, others are gathering steam. The LIBOR scandal is grabbing most attention but it is not the only price-fixing investigation. On July 2nd the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filed a petition in a Washington, DC court demanding that J ...[Read more]
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Foreign Minister Elias Jaua has called US Secretary of State John Kerry a murderer and accused him of inciting violence in Venezuela. Jaua's words came in retaliation to Kerry's accusation that the Venezuelan government is terrorizing its own people.
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Scientists have heralded a "whole new era" in physics with the detection of "primordial gravitational waves" – the first tremors of the big bang.
The minuscule ripples in space-time are the last prediction of Albert Einstein's 1916 general theory of rel ...[Read more]
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Benjamin Franklin warned that he who sacrifices freedom to get security deserves neither.
We’re seeing the wisdom in his words in post 9-11 America with laws that have weakened or simply ignored constitutionally protected freedoms. In the name of natio ...[Read more]
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The Charles Koch Foundation recently released a commercial that ranked a near-poverty-level $34,000 family among the Top 1% in the world. Bud Konheim, CEO and co-founder of fashion company Nicole Miller, concurred: "The guy that's making, oh my God, he's ...[Read more]
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President Obama is on the receiving end of scorn for remarks made during a high-profile speech in Brussels on Wednesday in which he defended the U.S. invasion of Iraq in an attempt to chastise Russia for recent developments in Crimea and Ukraine. ...[Read more]
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