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Since the beginning of 2013, Syrian troops had begun an irreversible push to take back territory overrun by foreign-backed militants, including along Syria’s borders with Lebanon and Jordan. Today, cities long lost to these militants once again have the ...[Read more]
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AT A CONGRESSIONAL hearing examining the march to war in Iraq, Republican congressman Walter Jones posed "a very simple question" about the administration's manipulation of intelligence: "How could the professionals see what was happening and nobody speak ...[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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If the United States wants to avoid falling like the Roman Empire, it must avoid “overconsumption” and distribute resources equally, according to a study funded by NASA.
“The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Maur ...[Read more]
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The number of chemicals known to be toxic to children's developing brains has doubled over the last seven years, researchers said.
"The continuing research has identified six new chemicals that are toxic to the developing human brain," said Landrigan. "We ...[Read more]
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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has confirmed that the Tory-led government's policies to cut public spending are set to continue, but the food banks don't lie.
Prior to delivering his 2014 budget to the country via the chancellor’s annual ...[Read more]
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Writing in The Washington Post on February 27, 2011, Rachel Bronson asked: “Could the next Mideast uprising happen in Saudi Arabia ?” Her answer was: “The notion of a revolution in the Saudi kingdom seems unthinkable.”
However, On September 30 the ...[Read more]
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The media’s game of mirrors has been projecting deceitful images of the Ukrainian crisis, such as those of corporations and US and European banks who see their investments in Ukraine go up in smoke and are about to abandon ship before it sinks.
Just whe ...[Read more]
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Our young people are drowning in a sea of debt, and it all started with Reaganomics.
And Reaganomics is a lot like cancer.
Most people don't know they have cancer until it reaches the later cancer stages, when it becomes much harder to treat.
In the early ...[Read more]
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Citizens of Earth had no idea how close the planet was to getting slammed with a devastating solar flare back in July 2012, but scientists claim we only missed the damaging event by nine days.
As noted by Reuters, scientists found that a series of coronal ...[Read more]
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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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