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(From The republic report) "Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little ha ...[Read more]
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Four years ago, a British educator and permaculturist named Rob Hopkins initiated what has since become one of the most rapidly evolving and far-reaching social experiments of our time. The Transition movement - which encourages people in cities and towns ...[Read more]
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The watchdog that keeps an eye on the national police force has found that two people arrested during the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 were plain-clothesed police officers.
The commission for public complaints against the RCMP released its long-awaited ...[Read more]
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This report by Agenzia Fides confirms a process of ethnic cleansing directed against the Christian community in Syria. Christians who refuse to leave are killed by "opposition" rebels
Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Maurice Bitar was killed in Qus ...[Read more]
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" .....On a trip to visit family in Seoul in April, I was approached by a man and a woman who claimed to be North Korean defectors. They presented me with a DVD that recently came into their possession and asked me to translate it. They also asked me to p ...[Read more]
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Representatives for the United States government defended the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs before a hearing of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland last week. ...[Read more]
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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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A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the “Right to Food” took aim at the entire basis on which food is produced and distributed on a global scale. Reflecting the type of progressive analysis of our food system from expe ...[Read more]
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New Caledonian crows are as good at reasoning as a human seven-year-old, claim researchers.
The scientists subjected six wild crows to a battery of tests designed to challenge their understanding of causal relationships. The "water displacement" tasks wer ...[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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