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Austerity & Neglect Blamed as 79 Die in U.K. Apartment Fire Housing Immigrants & Low-Income Workers

Protests are continuing in London over last week’s devastating apartment fire that killed 79 people. On Wednesday, around 200 protesters, including survivors of the fire, marched from West London to Parliament to

June 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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An Attack on Net Neutrality Is an Attack on Free Speech

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Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation and free speech. They are right. The Internet has become our public square, our newspaper

June 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Free Speech

Photo from Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1915). Slavery in America; [Women and children from Africa in the Southern States]. Retrieved from digitalcollections.nypl.org.

4 Myths About Slavery We Should Stop Believing Now

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To understand the origins of wealth inequality and discrimination, we must look at the history of slavery.

June 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Why the coal lobby's reverse auction push might be an attempt to 'blow up' the debate

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Craig Kelly’s argument that a reverse auction would allow coal power plants to compete doesn’t stack up

June 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Lobbies & Special Interests

Survivors of UK's Grenfell Tower Block Fire Demand Accountability for the Victims

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One week after the disastrous fire that engulfed the whole of Grenfell Tower Block, survivors and their supporters demand justice and a reform of Britain's national housing policy.

June 21, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

Type: Video

US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Chevron Pollution Case

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Steven Donziger, the lawyer representing affected indigenous communities in Ecuador, calls this "the probably the most outrageous act of industrial pollution in history related to oil."

June 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Legal System

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ISIS Flees Raqqa, Trump and Putin Escalate the War

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With the potential defeat of ISIS in Syria, the U.S. and Russia are stepping up their operations in an effort to fill the likely power vacuum, says Chris Davidson, a Reader of

June 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Barclays and Its Executives Are Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Fraud

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Bill Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One says don't expect much - sadly, the British Serious 'Farce' Office that brought about the charges may

June 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

Type: Video

Trump Risks War with Russia and Iran in Syria

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Increasing U.S. military strikes against Assad-allied forces in Syria threaten to undermine the fight against ISIS and spark direct conflict with Russia and Iran, says Ben Norton of Alternet‘s Grayzone

June 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Media Malpractice? As GOP Moves to Strip Healthcare from Millions, Press Remains Focused on Russia

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As Senate Republicans draft their repeal of Obamacare behind closed doors, we speak to The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel about secret bills, single-payer healthcare and the media’s coverage. Her latest article is

June 21, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Propaganda & Truth

Type: Video

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