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www.guardian.co.uk Defense Distributed tweeted on Thursday that 'Liberator' project had 'gone dark' at the request of government officials
www.nytimes.com The amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and sea level.
roarmag.org In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity.
www.brainpickings.org "Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want." "There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does no
www.bbc.co.uk Researchers show that plants can communicate the need to protect themselves from attack by aphids by making use of an underground network of fungi.
www.alternet.org "You want to film something b**ch? Film this!"
abcnews.go.com When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents...
elitedaily.com An interview from 2 years ago with an Abercrombie and Fitch District Manager who requested to remain nameless will make the now-viral comments CEO Mike Jeffries made about fat people seem harmless and light-hearted.
www.bloomberg.com Bloomberg BNA — Companies are starting to consider the value of natural resources in making business decisions, a practice that will become increasingly important as those resources become further constrained, corporate representatives...
roarmag.org Drawing inspiration from the Recovered Factories Movement in Argentina, the Vio.Me factory in Greece has begun production under worker self-management.
pressfreedomfoundation.org Campaign will support a professional stenographer to produce transcripts and provide them to the public and press For immediate release San Francisco, CA – May 9, 2013 – Freedom of the Press Foundation is proud to announce a...
www.huffingtonpost.com You have no idea just how bonkers high-frequency trading is making the stock market until you actually see it in action. A terrifying new video by the research firm Nanex offers just such an opportunity: It shows one half-second...
rt.com United States President Barack Obama is likely to endorse a Federal Bureau of Investigation effort that would ensure all Internet companies in the US provide a way for the government to conduct undetected, backdoor surveillance.
www.youtube.com A shocking video of Rio de Janeiro police in a helicopter firing on a moving car in a populous slum has sparked a probe. Footage emerged of the high-octane chase a year after it happened, raising concerns over the excessive use of police...
rt.com Italy appeals court has upheld the tax fraud conviction against former PM Silvio Berlusconi sentencing him to four years in prison.
electronicintifada.net Hawking’s decision was first announced yesterday by BRICUP, the UK campaign for the academic boycott of Israel.
www.gata.org U.S. diplomatic cables show that three years after the United States canceled the dollar's official convertibility into gold for foreign governments, thereby ending gold's official role as money, Western governments and central banks were...
articles.businessinsider.com There are now more Americans in jail -- 6 million -- than there were in Stalin's Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called "Incarceration Nation." And it's not just a relative population...
dcist.com D.C.'s police chief says that people who join an Independence Day march in which participants carry loaded rifles can expect to be turned back at the District border.
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boingboing.net Civil liberties and civil rights attorney Harvey Silverglate made this video to show you how to protect yourself from FBI agents who will interview you, then claim you lied so they can threaten you with imprisonment unless you become their...
www.politico.com Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced her first standalone piece of legislation Wednesday, calling for the government to give student borrowers the same deal it gives big banks when they need a loan. The measure would allow students who are...
www.andyworthington.co.uk As the prison-wide hunger strike continues at Guantánamo, having reached the three-month mark on Sunday, it is more important than ever that the voices of the prisoners continue to be heard, to maintain the pressure on the Obama...
www.nationalgeographic.com A special National Geographic News series on bringing extinct species back to life.
on.io9.com In her new book Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet and How We Live, University of Minnesota biologist Marlene Zuk explains why the paleo lifestyle is based on incorrect assumptions about how evolution works. In this...
