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Federal Park Police Will Start Citing Occupy D.C. Protestors
Since October, the federal Park Police—who oversee the space where D.C.’s two Occupy encampments at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza—have admirably refused to evict the protestors.
There have been occasional confrontations, ike...
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ACTA: The International Treaty You've Never Heard of That Could Affect Internet Freedom
While there was massive attention last week to online anti-piracy bills -- SOPA in the House and the PIPA in the Senate -- ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, has received scant media attention yet poses a tremendous threat to online...
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Federal Park Police Will Start Citing Occupy DC Protesters
Since October, the federal Park Police—who oversee the space where DC’s two Occupy encampments at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza—have admirably refused to evict the protesters.
There have been occasional confrontations, like...
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The 10 Most Racist Moments of the GOP Primary (So Far)
The Republican Party is digging deep into the old bucket of white racism, using the politics of fear, hostility and anxiety to win over white voters.
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Google User Monitoring Raises Privacy Concerns
On Tuesday Google announced that it would consolidate its 60 different privacy policies into just one and that the new policy would take effect March 1. However, the new policy has privacy advocates raising some concerns.
PCWorld outlines the...
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USA Today: Keystone Job Cops
With New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane continuing to puzzle over whether (or how) the Paper of Record should factcheck politicians, one might wonder whether other newspapers worry about the same thing.
Take USA Today (please!). Yesterday...
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Libya: Deaths of detainees amid widespread torture
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Libya: Deaths of detainees amid widespread torture
26 January 2012
Several detainees have died after being...
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Where Are the Women Directors?
Here’s a thought exercise: In a nation where 33 percent of the Supreme Court justices are women, 17 percent of the seats in the Senate and House are held by women and 12 percent of the statehouses have female governors, what accounts for the fact...
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Iran: New Assault on Freedom of Information
Iranian authorities should immediately charge or release at least 10 journalists and bloggers arrested since the beginning of 2012. The arrests appear to be part of the government’s most recent campaign to disrupt the free flow of information...
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Why Republican Oligarchs May Not Choose to Defend Mitt Romney
It is fair to say that few candidates in modern history have done themselves more damage than did Mitt Romney's "crack" campaign team when it decided to release the candidate's tax returns on the day that President Obama was delivering a...
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The agenda behind the anti-Muslim film screened to NYPD: protecting Greater Israel
The backers of an anti-Muslim film shown to the NYPD are major financial backers of Israel's settlement project.
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In Latin America and the Caribbean, Unmet Need for Contraception and Unsafe Abortion Are Widespread
Written by the IPPFWHR for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
January 22nd marked the 39th anniversary of one of the most significant legal...
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The Iran complex: why history matters, Paul Rogers
A sense of enduring history and more recent experience of bitter conflict inform Iran's nuclear stance. To understand this could be a way to avoid war.
The United States navy currently has two aircraft-carrier battle-groups on...
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Two dozen arrested in San Francisco, California Occupy march
About two thousand people participated in demonstrations on Friday in San Francisco, and police in riot gear responded with 24 arrests.
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Inside Romney’s Tax Returns
By Lena Groeger, ProPublica Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released 550 pages of tax returns Tuesday and news organizations are making their way through them. ProPublica shows us where to look to make sense of the numbers.
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How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’
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While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy...
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President Obama, help low-income families by creating jobs
Last night, President Obama addressed Congress and the nation, highlighting his plans for the upcoming year. The future economic well-being of families was a major theme in his speech. While he did not spend much time on the specific issues facing...
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Ann Romney Says It’s Unfortunate That They Had To Release Tax Returns
MIAMI, Florida — Mitt Romney’s campaign finally released two years of tax returns yesterday after weeks of refusals and equivocation. Presidential candidates from both parties have released their returns for over 50 years —...
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California professor under attack for opposing "study in Israel" scheme
Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 25 January 2012 The well-funded Israel lobby continues to wage attacks against university faculty, staff and students who engage in Palestine solidarity activism. One professor talks about why he refuses to be silent...
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Fed to Keep a Lid on Rates Through 2014
The Federal Reserve lent weight to economists’ warnings of a long and slow recovery on Wednesday when it announced plans to keep short-term interest rates near zero for at least the next three years. The idea is that low rates will encourage...
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