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24 May ' 20:03
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24 May ' 14:51
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Guantanamo, Drone Strikes and the Non-War Terror War: Obama Speaks
By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout | News Analysis
(Photo: Pete Souza / White House)Obama did not say he would close Guantanamo. He criticized Congress for placing restrictions on transferring detainees who have been cleared for release, although he signed the legislation Congress passed. To his credit, Obama lifted the moratorium on detainee transfers to Yemen and appointed a new senior envoy at the State Department and Department of Defense to oversee detainee transfers to third countries. But Obama did not pledge to use the waiver provision contained in Section 1028(d) of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the Secretary of Defense to authorize transfers when it is in the national security interest of the United States. Nor did he promise to stop blocking the release of detainees cleared by habeas corpus proceedings.
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- By Jeremy Scahill, Nation Books | Book Excerpt
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Yes Mr. President, This Is Who We Are
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Mexican Priest Alejandro Solalinde on Central, South American Migrants' Perilous Journey to US
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Guantanamo, Drone Strikes and the Non-War Terror War: Obama Speaks
By Marjorie Cohn,
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Mexican Priest Alejandro Solalinde on Central, South American Migrants' Perilous Journey to US
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Yes Mr. President, This Is Who We Are
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Global Protest in 300 Cities Will Take Aim on Monsanto
By Paul Jay, The Real News Network | Video Report
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Nebraska Keeps Death Penalty, Though Majority Seems to Back Repeal
In addition to Nebraska, 16 other states have already or are currently considering repeal bills this year.
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In Europe, March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant
An official ban on GM crops is still absent in most EU states, but regions have defined themselves as GMO-free.
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Can Unions and Cooperatives Join Forces? An Interview With United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard
By Amy Dean,As someone who loves to see organized labor on the move in any form, I am interested in the role that unions can play in promoting co-ops - and I have been excited to see the United Steelworkers take an especially proactive role in bolstering the cooperative movement. I spoke with Steelworkers President Leo Gerard about how union/co-op hybrids could change the experience of work for those who clock in every day and about the depth of vision it will take to make union co-ops a serious part of the American economy.
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Jeremy Scahill Recounts How the US Dirty Wars Killed Women and Children in a Yemeni Village
By Jeremy Scahill, Nation Books | Book ExerptIn his New York Times best selling Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill offers a riveting follow-up to his 2007 Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Only now, in the Obama administration, the CIA has assumed the role – working with the Pentagon at times – of carrying out extra judicial killings through drone strikes, missile attacks coordinated with the military, and special unit assaults, among other strategies.
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I-5 Bridge Collapses Over Skagit River; Three People Rescued
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Justice for Patriot Mineworkers
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When Black News Disappears: White Holds on Black Intellectuals’ Minds and Misinforming the Black Public
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A Dream Foreclosed
By Staff, Corporate Crime Reporter
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Global Protest in 300 Cities Will Take Aim on Monsanto
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Yes Mr. President, This Is Who We Are
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Mexican Priest Alejandro Solalinde on Central, South American Migrants' Perilous Journey to US
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A Dream Foreclosed
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Justice for Patriot Mineworkers
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In Europe, March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant
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I-5 Bridge Collapses Over Skagit River; Three People Rescued
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Nebraska Keeps Death Penalty, Though Majority Seems to Back Repeal
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Can Unions and Cooperatives Join Forces? An Interview With United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard
By Amy Dean,
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An Excerpt From Lightweb Darkweb: Three Reasons to Reform Social Media Before It Re-Forms Us
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When Black News Disappears: White Holds on Black Intellectuals’ Minds and Misinforming the Black Public
By Dr Tommy J Curry, Racism Review
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24 May ' 03:14
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23 May ' 22:03
Friday, 24 May 2013 / TRUTH-OUT.ORG- Hits: 1907379
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23 May ' 16:36
Labeling Wednesday's brutal attack in London a "Terror Attack" will only perpetuate a climate of fear.
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The GOP's Black Friends Need More Black Friends
The Republican Party knows it cannot continue to compete nationally if it remains the party of old white men.
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country that relies heavily on small family farms for its food production. Most of the investors that have leased farmland in Pujehun District plan to use it not for food production, but for industrial plantations of oil palm. Annual rents vary from about 23 US cents to US $12.35 per hectare [9 cents to $5 per acre).
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Resistance in Ohio, Fracking's Dumping Ground
By Mike Ludwig, | ReportThe Ohio River valley is lush in the spring. The eastern Ohio River, one of America's most economically vital waterways, winds through the rolling green foothills of Appalachia as it ambles past small towns and cities in Ohio and West Virginia. The valley has been heavily industrialized for decades. Coal-burning power plants, chemical processing facilities and mills dot the riverside. In 2012, the Ohio River was ranked the nation's most polluted waterway, according to government data compiled by Environment America. Elisa Young is determined to keep the river from getting worse.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senator Leads Fight to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act, and More
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How Electric Cars Save Human Lives
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Japan Gets Tough
By Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co. | Op-Ed
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senator Leads Fight to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act, and More
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Resistance in Ohio, Fracking's Dumping Ground
By Mike Ludwig,
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Japan Gets Tough
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How Electric Cars Save Human Lives
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The GOP's Black Friends Need More Black Friends
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London's Violent Spectacle: What is to be Gained by Calling it Terror?
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Ríos Montt Genocide Verdict Annulled, But Activists Ensure US-Backed Crimes Will Never Be Forgotten
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Obama Expands Militarization of Police
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Killing Americans: Jeremy Scahill on Obama Admin’s Admission 4 US Citizens Died in Drone Strikes
By Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video
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23 May ' 11:12
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Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
Tom Engelhardt: It's time to talk bluntly about the terrarists of our world.
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US for First Time Acknowledges Role in Deaths of Americans in Drone Strikes
The Obama administration sought to justify the killing of only one and said nothing about the other three.
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The Supreme Court Empowers Employers to Lock Out Workers
By Ann C Hodges and Ellen Dannin, Truthout | News Analysis
New York City school bus drivers strike in New York, January 16, 2013. (Photo: Librado Romero / The New York Times)For many years, employee strikes were common and often in the news while lockouts by employers were rare. Today, lockouts have become far more common than in years past. There are reasons employers have become more willing to lock out their employees. In both lockouts and strikes, an employer's workers are not working, so it may seem that the only difference between the two is who made the decision for the employees to be out of work. Employees strike when they think striking will put pressure on their employer to agree to the employees' demands. Employers lock out workers who want to continue working to pressure them to accept contract terms the employer wants.
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Farmland - the New "Blood Diamonds" in Sierra Leone?
By Joan Baxter , Truthout | News AnalysisWhile food production has been steadily rising in the years since the war ended, Sierra Leone remains a low-income, food-deficit country that relies heavily on small family farms for its food production. Most of the investors that have leased farmland in Pujehun District plan to use it not for food production, but for industrial plantations of oil palm. Annual rents vary from about 23 US cents to US $12.35 per hectare [9 cents to $5 per acre). In a press statement, Green Scenery warns that the poor compensation rates and the concentration of land in the hands of a few corporate investors will leave local farming communities with very little to live off after their land is converted to giant plantations and they've lost their farm fields, forest fallows and valuable economic trees.
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The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com | Op-EdThe connections and complicity evident in the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal – especially on the part of regulators – are a weak point for the global banking cartel, which connects a broad network of financial institutions that until now have been discussed as "too big to jail." But a brief look at the way Al Capone's crime network was toppled by tax evasion in the 1930s reveals similar, delicate threads that could quickly unravel the current criminal banking regime.
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Blood Ties, Nepotism and Democracy
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Big Oil's War on the Sun
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Organizing on Both Sides of the Border
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OECD: Inequality Rising Faster than Ever
By Salvatore Babones, Inequality.org | News Analysis
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The Supreme Court Empowers Employers to Lock Out Workers
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Farmland - the New "Blood Diamonds" in Sierra Leone?
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Organizing on Both Sides of the Border
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OECD: Inequality Rising Faster than Ever
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US for First Time Acknowledges Role in Deaths of Americans in Drone Strikes
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Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch | News Analysis
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London's Violent Spectacle: What is to be Gained by Calling it Terror?
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Blood Ties, Nepotism and Democracy
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Big Oil's War on the Sun
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The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
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23 May ' 03:53
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22 May ' 21:08
Thursday, 23 May 2013 / TRUTH-OUT.ORG- Hits: 1907303
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22 May ' 14:15
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The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers' Rights
Anti-union groups and the GOP have found a powerful ally in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
People came from all around the country to participate.
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers , | Op-Ed
(Photo: Monsanto via The New York Times)The common problem we face is the power of concentrated wealth and monopolistic corporate interests. This has created a crony capitalist economy that uses government to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the people, often threatening our basic necessities for life.A clear example of this is found in the behavior of the chemical and seed corporation, Monsanto.Monsanto threatens the world's food supply; this is a major challenge of our era. This struggle is central to the global ecosystem, economy and energy crises. Monsanto also pushes poisonous chemicals into the environment and promotes agricultural practices that exacerbate climate change.Monsanto's actions truly affect each of us. They put their profits over the need for healthy foods, diverse seed supplies and the stability of the agricultural economy. They employ a variety of tools to control access to seeds and aggressively push genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and toxic chemicals despite serious safety concerns about them. And they accomplish this with great help from the US government.
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Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
By David Morgan, Truthout | Op-EdCreating a new economy within the confines of predatory capitalism is an immense undertaking. The various oppressions that exist in society at large can insidiously take root in any new project if we don't work to undo their influence. Cooperatives, the democratic businesses leading the way in the struggle for a new economy, are no exception, and can be a difficult undertaking, given the lack of democracy in our daily lives.
Do you really need to own Boardwalk and Park Place and all the associated property to be a winner? That's how it works with Monopoly. But isn't that the sort of board game teaching the wrong lessons to our children - and to us? Don't we have enough corporations and businesses monopolizing our economy and owning our government? Enter Co-opoly, a board game where cooperative business are developed through team strategy.
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The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Senate Judiciary Committee Has Advanced a So-Called "Comprehensive" Immigration Plan, and More
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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad
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Global Capital and the Nation State
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog | Op-Ed
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Senate Judiciary Committee Has Advanced a So-Called "Comprehensive" Immigration Plan, and More
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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad
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Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to US, Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis
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Obama's Attack on Whistleblowers Criminalizes News Gathering
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Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
By Rania Khalek and Craig O'Connor, Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its "Verify the Recall" Effort in Wisconsin
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The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
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The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers' Rights
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Global Capital and the Nation State
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Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers ,
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Obama's Attack on Whistleblowers Criminalizes News Gathering
By Paul Jay, The Real News Network | Video Report -
Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to US, Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis
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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad
By Paul Jay, The Real News Network | Video Report
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