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By Richard Rhodes
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AP / Salisu Rabiu
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More than 150 people are dead after bombs ripped through police stations and other targets and gunbattles erupted in the Nigerian city of Kano and elsewhere in the region on Friday. A militant Islamist group called Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attacks, which it said were in retaliation for the capture, detention and death of its members in police custody.
Posted on Jan 21, 2012
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AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
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Like the flickering, “ironic points of light” that W.H. Auden described during another age of worldwide despair, once-brilliant Occupy encampments across the globe have dimmed in the face of eviction orders and internal social tension. Occupy London, now “a network of mutual support for the lost and destitute”—as New Statesman columnist Laurie Penny puts it—is no exception.
Posted on Jan 21, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Going into Thursday night’s debate in South Carolina, Mitt Romney was maintaining a consistent, if slim, lead as the GOP’s front-running presidential candidate, but now his chances of clinching the Republican nomination have shifted, according to this analysis by The New York Times.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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Flickr / UggBoy?UggGirl (CC-BY)
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That’s a big score for defenders of Internet freedom: On Friday, responding to strong public reactions and grass-roots campaigns, key members of the House and Senate put scheduled votes on the über-contentious SOPA and PIPA bills on ice.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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Online game “Angry Brides” tackles the issue of dowry culture in India; Lady Gaga is set to launch the Born This Way Foundation at Harvard next month; and apparently the CIA used American abstract expressionist painting as a weapon during the Cold War. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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Anonymous
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The notorious incognito hacker bandits known collectively as Anonymous have struck again, this time in retaliation for the bust-up of the highly trafficked file-sharing site Megaupload by federal operatives Thursday, by shutting down the DOJ’s and the White House’s online hubs along with a few key entertainment industry sites.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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Flickr / je@n (CC-BY)
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We will do our utmost to report this story without cheesy double entendres. Here goes: Southern California is associated with various people, places and phenomena—Hollywood, spray tans and bottle blondes, beachside homelessness, that stretch of the 101 highway that’s always featured in car commercial, and porn, to name a few.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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Flickr / theunabonger (CC-BY-SA)
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Here’s a fun story involving the USDA, the FDA, the GAO—i.e., the United States Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and the Government Accountability Office—with the Office of Management and Budget thrown in for good measure.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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abcnews.go.com
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It’s kind of awkward, when one is trying to woo Republican family values enthusiasts, to have one’s ex-wife drop the kind of PR bomb that Newt Gingrich’s second missus, Marianne Gingrich, just did at the height of the campaign season.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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Brad Montgomery (CC-BY)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown has suggested steep cuts to social programs that benefit parents and children on the verge of homelessness. Brown is hoping to close a $9.2 billion hole in the budget (and drum up support for tax hikes) by asking the state’s most desperate families to do without.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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Microbe World (CC-BY)
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Four tuberculosis patients in India were found to be untreatable with the best available drugs. Experts who say the country’s program for dealing with the disease does not adequately address resistant strains are calling for an overhaul of its treatment methods, including rigorous adherence to medication regimens.
Posted on Jan 18, 2012
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AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
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On the day it was announced that British unemployment had risen to close to 2.7 million people, a high court judge ruled that Occupy London protesters must dismantle their encampment on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the city’s center. The protesters, who expressed both defiance and resolve, were given seven days to appeal the decision.
Posted on Jan 18, 2012
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To protest two pieces of legislation that threaten the free and open Internet as we know it, thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, are taking themselves offline. Others, including Google, are asking users to take action. (more)
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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Flickr / SimonAlparaz (CC-BY)
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For obvious reasons, Americans’ savings accounts are shrinking during this ongoing recession, both because there’s not as much money to deposit and many more reasons to make withdrawals. This has consequences for the economy’s long-term recovery prospects, as does another currently popular method of payment: the credit card.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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Wikimedia Commons / Raymond (CC-BY-SA)
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Savvy Truthdig readers (as if there were any other kind) already know that the drug business is highly political here in the States, but the story of the Chinese malaria remedy artemisinin takes it up several notches on the international stage with a saga spanning several decades. Oh, and Chairman Mao is also involved.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012
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