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www.guardian.co.uk Glenn Greenwald: A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case
www.bloomberg.com France’s colonial past in Haiti is coming back to haunt it.
ow.ly Homes in struggling markets are being snapped up by big investment companies, shutting out regular buyers and creating concern about soaring prices.
www.zerohedge.com The Greek national broadcaster ERT situation is nowhere near a resolution, and the nation's political stability remains in the balance with Antonis Samaras’s coalition partners, Evangelos Venizelos of PASOK and Fotis Kouvelis of Democratic...
news.yahoo.com CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of Egypt's armed forces issued a declaration on Wednesday suspending the constitution and appointing the head of the constitutional court as interim head of state. In a televised broadcast, flanked by military...
www.france24.com EGYPT - Adli Mansour, the head of Egypt’s top court, has been sworn in as the country’s interim ruler just hours after the army ousted president Mohammed Morsi and suspended the constitution...
rt.com The deputy social media editor for Reuters has been indicted by the US Justice Department for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacktivist movement Anonymous.
gothamist.com Here comes the torrent of empty threats from rich people promising to leave the state they built and enjoy their fortunes in.
blogs.the-american-interest.com Corn ethanol gets just about everything wrong: it increases emissions, it starves the world’s poor, it isn’t efficient, and it drains billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies. As it turns out, it might also be responsible...
gawker.com In February, a hacker named Guccifer revealed to the world the hidden artistic talents of George W. Bush, releasing to The Smoking Gun a handful of photographs of oil paintings by the former president that had been taken from personal Bush...
www.dailykos.com Back in the 1990s, the CEO of my former company had a simple way of questioning the wisdom of some of our more dubious business strategies. "Are we," he would ask, "smoking the drapes?" By that ...
www.dailymail.co.uk The Office for National Statistics has admitted its RPI measure, which dictates how much household bills go up for millions of Britons each year, was 'inadequate'.
www.smithsonianmag.com With ethereal artworks traced in flames and gunpowder, Cai Guo Qiang is making a big bang
blog.foreignpolicy.com Today's New York Times uncovers the clandestine effort by the CIA and Arab governments to deliver military aid to rebel fighters in Syria through an airlift involving more than 160 flights of military-style cargo planes owned by...
whowhatwhy.com What can we learn about the future from the past? A lot, if we look closely at Obama’s CIA director John Brennan, his Master’s thesis, and his beliefs and track record on human and media rights.
www.nbcnews.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the ...
www.utne.com Complementary currencies offer a great way to empower and strengthen local communities. Here's advice on how to start your own from someone who's done it before.
dangerousminds.net Imagine that you're Bush or Cheney and you're reading this...
news.nationalgeographic.com Early humans didn't adopt wolves to help them hunt, argue scientists. Instead, wolves made the first move toward friendship.
inhabitat.com 19 year old Boyan Slat has designed the Ocean Cleaup Array which could reduce the world’s oceanic garbage patches by removing 7,2500,000 tonnes from them.
www.dailymail.co.uk The Mail on Sunday has seen documents which appear to show the new Pope secretly collaborated with the country’s dictatorship when he was head of the Jesuits.
www.guardian.co.uk Former French president could face jail and fine for 'taking advantage' of Liliane Bettencourt, France's richest woman
www2.egovlink.com E-Gov Link announces integration with Bitcoin in its popular E-Gov suite of products. Now municipalities can offer their citizens another option in paying for services like permits, utilities, class or event registration, shelter reservations,...
gizmodo.com This could really be happening. Just weeks after a baby girl was functionally cured of the HIV virus, early treatment has been found to put HIV into seemingly permanent remission in 14 adults.
rt.com The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week - including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks.
