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TED Talk : Richard Wilkinson :
"We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effec ...[Read more]
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Hundreds of lawyers have marched through Montreal in a subdued challenge to a new bill that harshly limits public protests. Canada ...[Read more]
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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According to a new report, more than $2 trillion worth of profit generated by some of the biggest United States-based corporations is being held overseas where itâs not subject to US income tax law. ...[Read more]
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Teachers are having to bring in food to give their pupils breakfast every day because they are too hungry and exhausted to learn as a result of increased poverty, according to a report out today.
The survey, by the National Association of Schoolmasters Un ...[Read more]
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