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'Stealing A Nation' (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base. ...[Read more]
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The Karnataka government has banned the sale of Mahyco's BT and hybrid seeds in the state, following reports of their failure.According to a release here today, crops in seven districts had failed causing huge losses to cotton growers. ...[Read more]
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8 people have died and 27 wounded in clashes during Turkey’s local elections yesterday. Even though the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is not running in the election, the local elections are widely seen as a vote for or against Prime Minister Erd ...[Read more]
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Wounds may heal more quickly if exposed to low-intensity vibration, report researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The finding, in mice, may hold promise for the 18 million Americans who have type 2 diabetes, and especially the quarter of th ...[Read more]
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The American left must break out of its downward spiral by building politically independent social movements, says Patrick Barrett, instead of advancing the professional careers of individual politicians - even Bernie Sanders. ...[Read more]
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Risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb predicted the 2008 financial crisis, by pointing out that commonly-used risk models were wrong. Distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University, author of best-sellers The Black Swan and Fooled by Ran ...[Read more]
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The international campaign calling for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, as a peaceful means of persuading that state to abandon its systematic violations of international law and its policies of apartheid dispossession, colonizatio ...[Read more]
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As genetically modified crops fail in several regions around the world and are exposed as a detriment to health, many are beginning to see right through the high-dollar false advertising claims projected by biotech corporations like Monsanto.
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Proposed US "Free Flow of Information Act" specifically excludes protections for WikiLeaks, bloggers ...[Read more]
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The US military was involved with at least 49 of the 54 nations on the African continent during 2012 and 2013 in activities that ranged from special ops raids to the training of proxy forces.
The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 se ...[Read more]
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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening sources of food and water. "Throughout the 21st century, ...[Read more]
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