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 ...[
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Seven years after TV show was taken off-air, the "Veronica Mars" movie debuts on Friday thanks to crowd funding service Kickstarter. Over 90,000 fans of the "Veronica Mars" TV show, which aired from 2004-2007, opened up their check books to the tune of $5 ...[
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Suddenly, or so it seems, inequality has surged into public consciousness - and neither the 1 percent nor its reliable defenders seem to know how to cope.
Some of the reactions are crazy - "it's Kristallnacht," "they're coming to kill us" - and the crazin ...[
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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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Was Turkey behind last year’s Syrian chemical weapons attack? That is the question raised in a new exposé by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the intelligence debate over the deaths of hundreds of Syrians in Ghouta last year. The Unit ...[
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A shocking new report finds that in addition to waging war against the only planet capable of sustaining human life, we’re also attacking those who would seek to protect it. The survey, conducted by London-based Global Witness, revealed that between 200 ...[
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The so-called Arab Spring is one of the most pivotal geopolitical happenings of the current century and one which will no doubt reverberate and define the academic discourse on the subject in later.
While no doubt unsavory strongmen like Ben Ali of Tunisi ...[
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You can't believe the government's numbers on employment. Take it from the guy who used to run the government's numbers on employment.
Keith Hall, the former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces the federal government's monthly jobs repo ...[
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Heavy distortions and suppressions of information regarding current Ukrainian events are appearing in US media.
You might wonder how so many different news sources could all completely avoid mentioning that the US government is consciously supporting two ...[
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On May 11 a plane arrived at Kiev’s airport in strict secrecy; it was met by the airport’s military personnel rather than the civilian staff. NATO military uniforms, 500 packages of amphetamines, and containers marked as poisonous substances were unlo ...[
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We still don’t know the outcome of the 2016 election, in which our “democratic process” has produced two candidates widely despised by the American people, but we do know the race’s biggest loser: reporters and the profession of journalism, which ...[
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