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Report: After Legislative Coup, North Carolina Can No Longer Be Considered a Democracy

In North Carolina, a new report finds the state’s democratic institutions are so flawed, the state should no longer be considered a functioning democracy. The report by the Electoral Integrity Project, or

December 28, 2016
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CIA Interrogator: At Time of U.S. Invasion, Saddam Hussein Was Focused on Writing Novel, Not WMDs

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Ten years ago this week, on December 30, 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed. Hussein was toppled soon after the U.S. invasion began in 2003. U.S. President George W. Bush

December 28, 2016
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Whistleblowers Don’t Need Elite Credentials To Help Protect Us from Government Overreach

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Author Malcolm Gladwell recently name-checked the EFF in an article published in The New Yorker. Mr. Gladwell’s piece examines what he sees as the differences between whistle-blowers Edward Snowden

December 27, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Researchers Fault Mass Incarceration for Black-White Wage Gap Returning to 1950's Levels

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Black labor has become superfluous in the US economy, and the ruling class is responding with more incarceration and police oppression, says Glen Ford.

December 28, 2016
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A World Without Antibiotics? The UN Has Elevated the Issue of Antibiotic Resistance

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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect at least 2 million people every year in the United States, killing 23,000. Experts warn that we are reaching a critical point in universal health—one that leaves the public vulnerable to major health risks in a post-antibiotic era.

December 26, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

2017 Will Bring Us More Earth-Like Alien Worlds Than We Ever Dreamed

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Since 1992, astronomers have found and confirmed a total of 3,431 exoplanets, star-orbiting planets beyond Earth's solar system. With several high-tech telescopes and observatories on the way in the next year, we have a better-than-ever chance of finding exoplanets with the potential to host extraterrestrial life.

December 26, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

Evolution 2.0: Gene Editing Could Bring Extinct Species Back to Life

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Ecologists published guidelines that identify factors for choosing which species our planet would be best served to revive. One animal that fits these guidelines, the wooly mammoth, could likely be revived using the DNA editing tool CRISPR.

December 26, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media, Part 1

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Excerpt from Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood

December 26, 2016
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Category: Media

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Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media, Part 2

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Americans are under almost constant bombardment with propaganda. Everyone who wants our money is trying in overt and more subtle ways to shape our views and our spending decisions. We kind

December 27, 2016
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Category: Media

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Bernie Sanders: Corporate Media is a Threat to Democracy

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Three weeks after the election of Donald Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke at the Free Library of Philadelphia as part of his "Our Revolution" book tour. He spoke harshly about the

December 26, 2016
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