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5 Ways Wall Street Is Putting the Squeeze on American Students | Education | AlterNet
The damage to our educational infrastructure is growing, according to Catherine Rampell's chilling report in the New York Times. As state funding has dwindled, public colleges have raised tuition and are now resorting to even more desperate measures ...[Read more]
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American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 12
If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they ...[Read more]
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Poland to ban Monsanto’s GM maize
Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday. "The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the ...[Read more]
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Crushing Dissent – The Smearing of Wikileaks and Occupy
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the worst possible future abuse by a government over its own citizens. The first thing likely to come to mind for many would be assassination of citizens without due process. Sadly, you will have to think a bit har ...[Read more]
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US Journalists Targeted By Pentagon Propaganda Contractors
"While conducting investigative reporting on civilian contractors in the Pentagon's "InfoOps" Internet propaganda operations, two reporters found themselves the subject of a highly targeted, professional media manipulation effort. Reporter Tom Vanden Br ...[Read more]
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US student drinks urine to survive prison abandonment
A San Diego college student was left in a cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet by federal drug agents. He says he drank his own urine to stay alive, and even tried to etch a message to his mother in his own arm. Twenty-four-year-o ...[Read more]
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Creators of the documentaries Debtocracy, and Catastroika, explain : It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov ...[Read more]
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General Wesley Clark Reveals US Plan To Invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Sudan, And Iran – from 2001
General Wesley Clark reveals the US plan to invade and take over 7 countries, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Sudan, And Iran, before we even invaded Afghanistan. The first part of the plan was revealed 10 days after 9/11 and was expanded to includ ...[Read more]
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Collateral Damage in the War on Protesters: Neighbors of the NATO3 Cuffed, Held at Gunpoint
Whether or not they are guilty of illegal activity, the original three activists facing terrorism charges in Chicago and their six apartment-mates are not the only people who were raided and harassed the night of Wednesday, May 16, in the days leading up ...[Read more]
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SOPA opponents release Digital Bill of Rights
Two leading opponents of SOPA are taking their fight for Internet freedoms to a whole new level. This time a team of bi-partisan lawmakers are offering a Digital Bill of Rights to help ensure that Americans continue to have an open Internet. ...[Read more]
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They sold us ‘happy pills’ – but all we got was suicide and misery – Mail Online – Peter Hitchens blog
Peter Hitchens writes - "A scandal can exist for ages before anyone notices. Here is one such. Ten years from now we will look back in shame and regret at the way the drug companies bamboozled us into swallowing dangerous, useless ...[Read more]
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