With yet another school shooting in the news, Bill Moyers speaks with cultural historian Richard Slotkin about America’s gun problem.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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An international group of scientists concerned with understanding how Earth functions as a system has created a beautiful and terrifying visual summary of data collected by the United Nations’ climate panel to project how conditions on the surface of the planet will change in the next 100 years.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The unusual display of reasonable behavior by House Republicans this week should be seen as a retreat—a change in tactics—but not a surrender. Democrats had better note the distinction.
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By Richard Reeves — Drones are wonderful, said almost all the Americans I have talked to in recent weeks.
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By Joe Conason — Beyond the eulogies bestowed this week on the late and truly great Nelson Mandela—a visionary, revolutionary and peacemaker—there is much for Americans to learn from the story of his vexed relationship with our country.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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By David Sirota — Though these questions have mostly been ignored, continuing to ask them can at least highlight the fact that something nefarious is happening right now in the Motor City.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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The law, part of a growing state-level movement, includes rape, which means women must buy a separate “rape insurance” policy in the event they become pregnant from a sexual assault.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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Kim Jong Un’s government executed the leader’s uncle for treason on charges of plotting a coup, attempting to reform the currency, distributing pornography and more, and experts are divided over whether the violence indicates Kim “was consolidating his power ruthlessly—or that powerful groups within the elite were jockeying for power,” The Guardian reports.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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By Marie Arana —
It has been 40 years since the CIA helped oust a democratically elected government in Chile, leaving President Salvador Allende sprawled on a couch with part of his skull gone. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera tells the story of “that other September 11.”
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
C. Wright Mills argued 50 years ago that one important measure of the demise of vibrant democracy and the corresponding impoverishment of political life can be found in the increasing inability of a society to translate private troubles to broader public issues.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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A presumed U.S. military drone strike hit a convoy of wedding guests, local authorities say, the second incident of drones killing civilians this week. The U.S. maintains its silence over the program, while a Yemeni activist says such errors only strengthen al-Qaida in the region.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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By Beverly Gologorsky, TomDispatch —
For at least a decade, Americans have been living in the shadow of war and yet, except in pop fiction of the Tom Clancy variety (where, in the end, we always win), there’s remarkably little evidence of it.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
A group that monitors how investment funds manage the risks of climate change says many are exposing their investors to massive future losses.
Posted on Dec 13, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Why the Sochi Olympics remind us of Berlin in 1936, The People’s Pope is Time’s man of the year, turning beauty advertising on its head, college football is big business, and immigration abuses.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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We’ve all been guilty of trying to catch a few more minutes of shut-eye in the mornings as our alarm reminds us it’s time to face the day. However, though it may feel like you’re cheating the clock when you hit the snooze button, you’re actually doing your body more harm than good.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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The onetime CEO of Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank, one Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, is going to jail for five and a half years for his part in his firm’s downfall—which also helped his country’s economy bottom out in 2008. He’ll be in good company.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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Camden, N.J. is a stone’s throw from tourist-friendly Philadelphia, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi notes, but it’s nothing like its neighbor city. It’s one of the starkest examples of communities in crisis across the nation—an “un-Fantasy island of extreme poverty and violence” where everyone is scarred and few are employed.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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Some are calling it a “Christmas miracle,” but most can see the agreement reached by congressional negotiators after four years of living in a budget-less country is much ado about nothing. Except senior political correspondent John Oliver, who argues that the bipartisan budget is comparable to the Civil Rights Act.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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Leading anti-apartheid activist and former South African Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils told “Democracy Now!” that the African National Congress led by Nelson Mandela made a “Faustian pact” with neo-liberalism to end the official policy of segregation and avoid civil war.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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“Uptalk,” the habit of increasing the pitch of one’s voice at the end of sentences, is on the rise among California males, new research shows.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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By Sonali Kolhatkar — It turns out that the pope’s critique of capitalism is actually nothing new.
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Physicists have found evidence in simulations that the universe is quite possibly a projection; the latest Edward Snowden leak reveals the NSA uses Google cookies when determining whom to hack; meanwhile, the National Library of Norway is digitizing all of its books and making them free to read online. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Earth’s sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be twice as great as scientists had thought, new climate records from the distant past suggest.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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By Bill Moyers, TomDispatch —
Toward the end of his tenure, when he was writing an increasing number of dissents on the Rehnquist Court, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan was asked if he was getting discouraged. He smiled and said, “Look, pal, we’ve always known—the Framers knew—that liberty is a fragile thing. You can’t give up.” And he didn’t.
Posted on Dec 12, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It’s a sign of how far to the right House Republicans have dragged governance in our country that the very conservative budget deal reached by Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray will need many liberal and Democratic votes to pass.
Posted on Dec 11, 2013
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By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica —
Amid the rush to enroll as many people as possible by the Dec. 23 deadline, there’s a huge caveat that isn’t getting much public attention.
Posted on Dec 11, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Nelson Mandela’s passing last week at the age of 95 has been met with a global outpouring of remembrance and reflection.
Posted on Dec 11, 2013
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By Robert Reich — About the only good thing that can be said about the budget deal just patched together by House Republican budget chair Paul Ryan and Senate Democratic budget chair Patty Murray is that the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity oppose it.
Posted on Dec 11, 2013
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