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Tortured freedom: Libya
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George W. Bush, Dick Cheney Convicted Of War Crimes
In the first verdict of its kind since former President George W. Bush left office, he and several members of his administration have been successfully convicted in absentia of war crimes in Malaysia. This past Friday, a five panel tribunal delivered a u ...[Read more]
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The Battle Over CEO Pay: When the Top 1 Percent Take on the Top 0.01 Percent
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. (Photo: Victor1558)In July 2010, Congress passed the...In July 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Dodd- ...[Read more]
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Withholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice and the Right to Water in Haiti
Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river. The imported disease has claimed more than 7,000 lives and c ...[Read more]
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Google: Western governments increasingly indulge in online censorship
Governments not widely blamed for censorship are increasingly asking Google to remove political content from its services, the company said as it released its bi-annual transparency report. The IT giant has been publishing data on how and why they have b ...[Read more]
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Handmaidens to Barbarity
On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied. Over Hiroshima, and three days later over Nagasaki, it exploded an atomic dev ...[Read more]
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Ukraine Now Headed by Fascists and Neo-Nazis
In Ukraine, the West supported an unconstitutional putsch against an elected government perpetrated, among others, by fascist/neo-nazi storm troopers (Svoboda, Right Sector) instrumentalized by U.S. intelligence. After a Russian counterpunch, U.S. Preside ...[Read more]
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Ron Paul on Crimea: None of America’€™s business
Ron Paul is once again speaking up about the situation in Crimea, and this time the former congressman is condemning critics from his own country who are seemingly obsessed with the recent secession. The former Republican representative for Texas told RT ...[Read more]
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Voracious Worm Evolves to Eat Biotech Corn Engineered to Kill It
One of agricultural biotechnology’s great success stories may become a cautionary tale of how short-sighted mismanagement can squander the benefits of genetic modification. After years of predicting it would happen - and after years of having their sugg ...[Read more]
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Scotland isn’t different, it’s Britain that’s bizarre
Britain is in a state of self denial, sitting at the bottom of European league tables, but convinced it still rules the waves. The aspirations of the SNP may seem ambitious, but all they are really proposing is to be a normal European country. ...[Read more]
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Half of European bumblebees in decline, quarter face extinction
Almost one-quarter of European crops€™ vital pollinators€“ bumblebees€“ could die out in the coming years, as half of the species are declining, a new study says. Citing human factor and climate change, it warns of serious implications€ for agric ...[Read more]
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