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What are the Ties Between Dakota Access Pipeline Company & North Dakota's Attorney General?

Close to 100 scientists have signed onto a letter decrying inadequate environmental and cultural impact assessments for the Dakota Access pipeline, calling for a halt to construction until such tests have been

October 3, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Corruption

Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Could Fix a Broken System

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You have heard this story before: the system is broken and a majority of Americans are feeling their voice doesn’t matter. Dylan Ratigan points out that “We’ve got the two least popular presidential candidates in modern American history and less

October 1, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Relativism vs Systematic Thought: Ancient Greek Philosophy Is Still Relevant Today

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A while back I wrote a diary concerning a discussion I had with friends and family over one weekend: Weekend Ruminations About White Supremacy. I indicated at the end that

October 1, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Philosophy

Fake news and false flags: How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500M for top secret Iraq propaganda

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The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.

October 1, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Propaganda & Truth

As Brazil’s New Ruler Admits Lie Behind Impeachment, US Press Closes Eyes

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In a September 22 speech to an elite foreign policy group in New York City, Brazil’s legislatively installed president, Michel Temer, made the startling admission that President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office because of her position on economic policy, rather than any alleged wrongdoing on her part.

September 30, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
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Is Stop-and-Frisk Unconstitutional?

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Q: Was the police technique of “stop-and-frisk” found unconstitutional? A: The practice is not unconstitutional, but a judge ruled in 2013 that New York City’s stop-and-frisk program was carried

September 29, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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As Earth Reaches Frightening CO2 Milestone, Bill McKibben Calls for War on Climate Change

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"We are under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII," says Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, in an extended interview in

September 30, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Climate Change

Bill McKibben: Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Powerful Enough to Overwhelm Fossil Fuel Industry

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We speak with 350.org’s Bill McKibben about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of hundreds of other tribes from across the U.S., Canada and Latin America have resisted construction of

September 30, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Medea Benjamin: If Americans Can Sue Saudis over 9/11, Drone Victims Should Be Able to Sue U.S.

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"Finally, we have an example of the U.S. Congress putting U.S. citizens above the relationship with the Saudi government," says CodePink’s Medea Benjamin in response to the vote by Congress to allow

September 30, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Report: Donald Trump Violated US Embargo on Cuba in 1990s Even as He Called Castro a Brutal Dictator

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A new investigation reveals Donald Trump’s businesses violated the U.S. embargo on Cuba and secretly did business there in the late 1990s and then tried to cover it up. The investigation

September 30, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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