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By Keith Heyer Meldahl
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By Michael Jerryson (Editor), Mark Juergensmeyer (Editor)
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Private prison corporations are taking advantage of the economic crisis to buy state prisons; the French right wing is, unsurprisingly, falling apart; meanwhile, Obama goes back on his word and cracks down on medical marijuana dispensaries. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 6, 2012
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AP/Michel Spingler
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The austerity regime in Europe took a big hit Sunday, with French voters electing Socialist Francois Hollande, while the Greeks, also voting Sunday, handed out pink slips to the ruling centrist coalition that has slashed government spending on EU orders.
Posted on May 6, 2012
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Paul Wicks (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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In an effort to improve upon the 2008 slogans of “Hope” and “Change,” the Obama campaign insisted before an Ohio audience Saturday that the president would take the country “Forward” if voters (and corporate sponsors) elected him to four more years in the White House.
Posted on May 5, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law Friday that eliminates Planned Parenthood’s access to taxpayer money that is funneled through the state for non-abortion services, saying that any funds sent to the organization could indirectly be used to pay for abortions.
Posted on May 5, 2012
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U.S. Air Force/Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt
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Shrugging off Pakistani opposition, an American drone fired missiles into a house near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing eight suspected militants.
Posted on May 5, 2012
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“Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty?” finance columnist David Cay Johnston asks.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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The Eyes of New York (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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OWS communications coordinator Shawn Carrié was walking home at 9 p.m. on May Day when nine plainclothes police officers approached him, took his belongings, placed him in handcuffs and put him in a van. He was questioned about his involvement in Occupy Wall Street and then spent the next 13 hours in jail.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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AP/Thibault Camus
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Adlene Hicheur, a 35-year-old Algerian-born nuclear physicist who worked in Switzerland’s CERN laboratory, was sentenced to five years in prison by a French court for “criminal association with a view to plotting terrorist attacks” on a French barracks with al-Qaida’s North African affiliate.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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Residents of an apartment complex in east London are asking if they will be made the targets of attacks if the Ministry of Defense goes through with a plan to station soldiers and surface-to-air missiles atop their building to deter airborne terrorist threats during the Olympic Games.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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Menage a Moi (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Researchers are encouraged by the results of a 16-year study of T cells that have been engineered to kill cells infected with HIV. The altered cells reproduce themselves successfully and have not led to the development of cancers, as previous attempts to tinker with T cells’ genetics have.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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More than 100 former professional football players Thursday joined the growing list of those who are suing the NFL over concussion-related injuries.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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That’s right. Nothing to do with self-serving politicians or predatory bankers. And while we’re at it, inequality’s a good thing. Those are the arguments printed in former Bain Capital executive Edward Conard’s upcoming “Unintended Consequences,” a free-market apologia that New York Times reporter Adam Davidson dubbed likely to be the “most hated book of the year.”
Posted on May 3, 2012
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Junior Seau is the latest ex-NFL player to commit suicide, leaving some to question whether these cases may be related to brain injuries the men suffered during their playing careers.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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Gage Skidmore
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On Wednesday, the former House speaker formally ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, despite previously vowing to stay in the race until the GOP convention in August.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, a pro-abstinence program aimed at middle and high schoolers, as one of almost three dozen “evidenced-based” sex education programs that qualify as effective in preventing teenage pregnancy.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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