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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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Proposed US "Free Flow of Information Act" specifically excludes protections for WikiLeaks, bloggers ...[Read more]
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The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the "hard news" stories that the media has a responsibility to report. But the corporate-owned press generally avoids them - ranging from who got all the wealth to stolen taxes. ...[Read more]
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Despite what you might read in the Wall Street Journal or see on Fox News, capitalism is not an economic system that produces a middle class. In fact, if left to its own devices, capitalism tends towards vast levels of inequality and monopoly. The natural ...[Read more]
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The major security flaw affecting several versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser affects a staggering amount of computer users. The exploit allows attackers to be able to take total control of the IE users' computers. When all vulnerabl ...[Read more]
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Each day, the open internet/net neutrality battle gets a bit more interesting. We just covered Tim Lee's excellent look at how Comcast and other big telcos were effectively using interconnection disputes to get the same result as violating net neutrality, ...[Read more]
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US mercenaries are controlling the repression of pro-Russian protesters in Ukraine's east by the fascist groups of the NATO puppet regime in Kiev, according to reports emerging from German media. ...[Read more]
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