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Dr. King would be Standing beside All Who are now Standing up for Our Democracy
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Dr. King would be Standing beside All Who are now Standing up for Our Democracy

Mitchell Zimmerman

A member of the Freedom Movement reflects on Dr. King’s legacy in our perilous times

Protesting the Unprecedented Lethal State Violence against Protests by the Islamic Republic of Iran

Protesting the Unprecedented Lethal State Violence against Protests by the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Trump’s Comic Book Foreign Policy

Trump’s Comic Book Foreign Policy

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Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion. Click here for the rest […]

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Maya Angelou: 'Still I Rise' (video)

Maya Angelou: ‘Still I Rise’ (video)

Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86. Maya Angelou reads ‘Still I Rise’

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Climate Change
Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Posted on 27 May 2014 by howardlee The link between rapid climate changes and mass extinctions has been strengthened in a recent paper by Jourdan et al in “Geology.” The authors demonstrate that the extraordinarily huge volcanic eruptions of the…

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China
The NSA Effect:  China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware

The NSA Effect: China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has urged its banks to stop using servers built by IBM because it believes that they might be used for espionage. According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, the People’s Bank of China and the Chinese Ministry of Finance…

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Constitution
"Joe the Plumber": "Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights."

“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.”

“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.” (via The Political Carnival) “Joe the Plumber” (Sam Wurzelbacher, the not-plumber), wrote the following […]

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Africa
Preying on the Weak:  Like Big Tobacco, Big Oil Targets Developing Countries

Preying on the Weak: Like Big Tobacco, Big Oil Targets Developing Countries

By Michael T. Klare via Tomdispatch.com In the 1980s, encountering regulatory restrictions and public resistance to smoking in the United States, the giant tobacco companies […]

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Egypt
Egypt: Passive Aggression and Counter-revolution:  Voters, Youth Stay Home

Egypt: Passive Aggression and Counter-revolution: Voters, Youth Stay Home

By Juan Cole Voting was abruptly extended from two days to three in Egypt’s presidential election on Tuesday, apparently because of an unexpectedly low turnout. […]

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Apartheid
Turkish Court asks Interpol to arrest 4 Israeli ex-Generals for Gaza Aid Ship Murders

Turkish Court asks Interpol to arrest 4 Israeli ex-Generals for Gaza Aid Ship Murders

Turkish court orders arrest of Israeli top brass over Gaza ship raid (via AFP) A Turkish court on Monday ordered the arrest of four former […]

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Climate Change
Solar & Wind Renewables Pass Hydroelectric Dams as Power Sources in US

Solar & Wind Renewables Pass Hydroelectric Dams as Power Sources in US

Originally published on the ECOreport. (Editor’s Note: it’s worth noting that the numbers below don’t include rooftop solar power, only utility-scale solar power plants.) The Sun Day Campaign has just released a press release proclaiming the…

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