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How Insurance Companies and Prisons are Making the Opiate Crisis Worse

A long time addiction specialists says health insurance companies reluctance to treat heroin addiction as an emergency and prison officials refusal to allow inmates access to methadone are only making a bad situation

May 31, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Human Rights

Type: Video

Trump and the Future of the Paris Climate Accord

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Climate scientist Dana Nuccitelli discusses the Trump Administrations tendency to embrace fake climate news and the administration's hostility to sound climate change policy.

May 31, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Climate Change

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CRISPR Gene Editing May Cause Hundreds of Unintended Mutations in DNA

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A new study from Columbia University Medical Center offers a word of warning for those scientists using CRISPR-Cas9. They found that the gene editing technology could lead to unintended mutations, which could remain undetected if they are only checked by algorithms.

May 30, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

Did Trump Campaign Rhetoric Empower the White Extremist Who Killed Two Bystanders on Portland Train?

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For the second time in a week, a military man was killed by a white extremist. On Friday, 53-year-old Ricky Best, a retired Army veteran, and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche

May 30, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Racism

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On Tyranny: Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the U.S. Can Avoid Sliding into Authoritarianism

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Is the United States sliding toward tyranny? That is the question posed by Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder in his new book that draws on his decades of experience writing about

May 30, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Type: Video

WaPo’s Laziest Columnist Calls Protesters ‘Fascists,’ Equates Them to Manchester Bomber

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Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen (5/29/17) continues his impressive streak of downplaying racism and being wrong with his latest half-baked column, “Protesters at Middlebury College Demonstrate ‘Cultural Appropriation’—of Fascism.”

May 31, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

Follow the Money, Starting With Michael Flynn

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“Follow the money!” This is not only a phrase made famous by the Watergate scandal and the subsequent investigation; it’s also good advice for anyone trying to dig out the truth

May 30, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Noam Chomsky in Conversation with Amy Goodman on Climate Change, Nukes, Syria, WikiLeaks & More

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In this Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with the world-renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky. In a public conversation we had in April, we talked about climate change, nuclear

May 29, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Classic Who: JFK in His Own Words

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Today is the 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy. The young president was struck down less than three years from his inauguration. So we don’t know what he might have accomplished

May 29, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Sky-high carbon tax needed to avoid climate catastrophe, say experts

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Economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern, say taxes of $100 per metric tonne could be needed by 2030

May 29, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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