Politics - Part 59
Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere.
California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Times reports on another chapter in the campa ...[Read more]
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anything, including spying on people, users, other companies, organizations, implementing blocking, takedowns, infiltrations, hacking - any spectrum of fields which is totally illegal for any normal citizen to undertake.
Under the proposed legislation, a ...[Read more]
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The latest attempt by Congress to try to censor and control the Internet is no longer known as SOPA but CISPA: the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The SOPA-like bill would give companies the power to collect information on their subscribers ...[Read more]
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Taking advantage of relaxed campaign finance laws, a cadre of deep-pocketed donors are spending gobs of money to bankroll super PACs, a phenomenon that is reshaping the modern election cycle.
It is a select group. The top 100 individual super PAC donors ...[Read more]
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Article by Noam Chomsky looks at the decline of american power, from a historical perspective starting from the end of world war ii and loss of China.
Not withholding any inconvenient and uncomfortable historical facts, article recounts the reasons for ...[Read more]
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The business elite is and always has been the most powerful force in U.S. politics, by virtue of its dominant role in the economy. But what is striking ...[Read more]
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"Before Adbusters called on activists to Occupy Wall Street, thousands of Spaniards set up camp in Madrid ...[Read more]
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Corporate America along with its three pawns, the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of our government, are slowly driving our nation to ruination. The signs of the rot and ruin are everywhere, not just from sea to shining sea across our land b ...[Read more]
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THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com.
This emporium for girls and women ...[Read more]
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Germany's Pirate Party won four seats in the Saarland state parliament on Monday.
The new party, led in the western state by 22-year-old Jasmin Maurer, took an impressive 7.4 percent of the parliamentary vote despite only having three months to prepare f ...[Read more]
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Near a thousand Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible unilateral Israeli military strike on Iran, as more Israeli citizens begin to reach out to Iranians.
The protest sprung up independently after a Facebook campaign by I ...[Read more]
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