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www.eff.org Let’s face it: most of us have no idea how companies are gathering and sharing our personal data. Colossal data brokers are sucking up personal facts about Americans from sources they refuse to disclose. Digital giants like Facebook are teaming...
blog.foreignpolicy.com The undercover CIA officer who signed off on a controversial decision to destroy videotapes of prisoners being tortured in 2005 has ascended to the top job within the agency's clandestine service.
truth-out.org North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system -- and that's why financial elites want to crush it.
www.wired.com By taking a CT scan of an anesthetized rat and sending the data to a 3-D printer, researchers have created a life-size model of the rat's skeleton and lungs. Similar models of body parts from other animals or human patients could be used...
rt.com Just one week after President Obama appointed Julia Pierson as the first female Secret Service director in the agency’s 148-year history, a group of hackers claims to have leaked her personal information.
abcnews.go.com The boy — whose name is Ahmed — is the son of a Syrian rebel fighter.
www.addictinginfo.org David Stockman is the man who put 'Reaganomics' into action. He quit when he realized 'Trickle Down' was a pack of lies and now he's warning us that the GOP is setting us up for another fall.
www.politico.com Bill Clinton says it's time to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Speaking at an Energy Department conference in Maryland on Wednesday, the former president said he was surprised the project has gotten as gummed up as it has, laying the...
www.mnn.com Ninth graders design science experiment to test the effect of cell phone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you.
www.bbc.co.uk Germany's national railway company, Deutsche Bahn, plans to test small drones to thwart vandals who spray graffiti on its property.
www.slate.com It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling...
extremeprejudiceusa.wordpress.com Who (really) killed Gadhaffi? All of the Libyan rebels credited with Gadhaffi's murder died themselves within a year. Ambassador Stevens was also killed, and the Embassy archives vanished.
www.nytimes.com Do consumers have the power to change factory conditions abroad?
therealnews.com Gregory Wilpert: In spite of a new audit of election results that shows a win by Maduro that is recognized by all countries of Latin America, the US supports opposition
grist.org Whatever oil and gas true believers want to think, the world is doing this solar power thing.
sfbayview.com A senior British politician has revealed Britain’s involvement in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first prime minister. The leader of the Congolese independence struggle from...
www.foreignpolicy.com When someone mentions Iran, what images leap into your mind? Ayatollahs, religious fanaticism, veiled women? How about sexual revolution? That's right. Over the last 30 years, as the mainstream Western media has been preoccupied...
www.guardian.co.uk Th 84-year-old director rolled into Cannes this week to discuss his latest film La Danza de la Realidad, a magic-realist memoir of his youth. He talks about his troubled childhood, his passion for psychomagic – and why ageing doesn't...
tv.msnbc.com A new group of low-wage workers is demanding a raise from their employers' client. The Washington, D.C., strike demands that President Obama sign legislation or an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay higher wages.
www.theglobeandmail.com A study of trading on Google information by academics from Warwick Business School, University College London and Boston University analysed changes in the frequency with which 98 terms such as “revenue” and “unemployment” were...
ow.ly Economists say the deals are market distorting and the World Trade Organization already bans the use of offsets as a criterion for contract...
rt.com A team of academics have launched the world’s largest interactive database detailing suspected CIA rendition flights, many of which may have transported detainees to Guantanamo Bay.
billmoyers.com An interactive timeline compares President Obama and George W. Bush's regards for civil liberties while fighting terror. Discover what has changed — and what has not.
www.heraldsun.com.au SWEDISH police say they hope reinforcements will help quash nightly riots that started nearly a week ago in Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs and have spread.
