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In December, I wrote to the heads of six of the country's biggest financial institutions with a simple request: that they voluntarily disclose the financial contributions their companies make to think tanks. This disclosure would help make sure shareholde ...[Read more]

A study carried out by AAAS shows that rats chose to free the imprisoned rats rather than eating food placed near the cage, which suggests that the rats show compassion, primarily a trait seen only in primates. Researchers at the University of Chicago per ...[Read more]

As the Ukrainian crisis has unfolded over the past few weeks, it’s hard for Americans not to see Vladimir Putin as the big villain. But the history of the region is a history of competing villains vying against one another; and one school of villains— ...[Read more]

In 2009, when Robert H Richard IV, an unemployed heir to the DuPont family fortune, pled guilty to fourth-degree rape of his three-year-old daughter, a judge spared him a justifiable sentence – indeed, only put Richard on probation – because she figur ...[Read more]

It was quietly reported last June that the FBI was aware that an organization — possibly a law enforcement agency — had plans to assassinate leaders of the Occupy movement, and the bureau did nothing about it. Now a U.S. District Court judge says the ...[Read more]

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]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed he has no regrets about the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding, telling a crowd at American University in Washington, D.C. he would "do it all over again ...[Read more]

The United States created a text messaging network to try and spread unrest in the communist country. More than 40,000 people have shared news and opinions using the service. The document which was obtained by the Associated Press, it states that the pro ...[Read more]

The labyrinthian design of the political network backed by the Koch brothers and their fellow conservative donors serves several purposes, but one of the biggest is to ensure the privacy of its financial backers. As we detailed last month, the money flows ...[Read more]

Here'€™s what it looks like to be one of the people making the things we use every day. ...[Read more]

Chomsky talks about how indigenous peoples are trying to save the world from anthropogenic climate disruption and the havoc being wrought by ''really existing capitalist democracies.'' ...[Read more]