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Saul Landau
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The Guardian notes, “Snowden will go down in history as one of America’s most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning.”
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
As the climate warms in Arctic regions, more diseases from Europe and elsewhere are spreading there, threatening both animal and human populations.
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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By Peter Z. Scheer — President Obama defended the government’s massive surveillance programs Friday, saying they “help us prevent terrorist attacks.”
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The good news is that some coral can recover from periodic warming of the oceans. The bad news is it might take too long.
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
While the superrich themselves live in an age of precarity due to the free-market economics they support, they largely escape its consequences through obscene amounts of wealth that enable them to buy private solutions to public problems.
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
On this sun-dappled afternoon, class of 2013, I want to make a suggestion. Take out your iPhone. Text a friend at a graduation ceremony elsewhere. Chat with your relatives. Amuse yourself. In the meantime, let me address a group with far less time than you, but perhaps a longer attention span at this particular moment—my own cohort.
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Regarding rainfall patterns and tree growth, nobody knows for certain what climate change will bring.
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Paying someone else to secure you a seat at committee hearings is a for-profit concern on Capitol Hill, but some people are worried it has weakened the influence of the public.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is rapidly approaching, commemorating the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — What is President Obama fighting for? What is the point of his second term?
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch —
Imagine you’re a historian 100 years from now—assuming there are any historians 100 years from now, which is not obvious—and you’re looking back at what’s happening today. For the first time in the history of the human species, you’d see we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
More intense thunderstorms combined with damaging winds are expected to occur with increased frequency because of climate change.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch —
Happily aloft in the vicinity of my father’s hat, and the weather having cleared since the Ohioan missed its compass heading, I was free to form my earliest impression of the sea at a safe and sunny distance, lulled by the sound of waves breaking on the beach, delighting in the drift of gulls in a bright blue sky.
Posted on Jun 4, 2013
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