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Net Neutrality Reduced to Mogul vs. Mogul in Corporate Media’s Shallow Coverage

A common refrain in popular news media is that net neutrality is just too boring and esoteric for ordinary people to be interested in. “Oh my god that is the most boring thing I’ve ever seen,” John Oliver (HBO, 6/1/14) once exclaimed after showing his

August 19, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

Too Big to Prosecute — DOJ Gives Giant Corporations a Pass

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The Justice Department is often zealous, sometimes to the point of recklessness, in prosecuting street crime and drug offenses. But it has been dilatory and feckless — our podcast guest this

August 18, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world

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The word has become a rhetorical weapon, but it properly names the reigning ideology of our era – one that venerates the logic of the market and strips away the things that make us human.

August 18, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Philosophy

Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice

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What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.

August 18, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Buildings to Generate Their Own Power With Innovative Glass Blocks

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Buildings could soon be able to convert the sun’s energy into electricity without the need for solar panels, thanks to innovative new technology.

August 17, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Renewable Energy

‘The Fight Doesn’t End Until We Stop It at the Source’

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Janine Jackson interviewed Kandi Mossett about the continuing resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline for the August 11, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.

August 17, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Life After Hate: Trump Admin Stops Funding Former Neo-Nazis Who Now Fight White Supremacy

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Heather Heyer is the latest casualty in a number of deaths at the hands of white nationalists. Foreign Policy recently published an FBI and Department of Homeland Security bulletin that

August 17, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Human Rights

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Why Isn’t the Mainstream Media Honest about US Torture?

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On Monday, August 7, The Washington Post ran a story with the headline Judge orders CIA interrogation lawsuit to trial. It details the upcoming civil trial of two CIA-contract pschologists who were paid

August 17, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Propaganda & Truth

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Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression

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In the wake of Charlottesville, both GoDaddy and Google have refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that, in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center,

August 18, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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In Truth and Reconciliation, First Thing’s First—The Truth

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Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.

August 16, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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