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Michigan GOP Pass Bullying Bill Giving ‘License To Bully’
by DAVID BADASH Michigan Senate Republicans have passed a bullying bill — not an anti-bullying bill — that actually gives license to bully. In an Orwellian twist, the bill, which passed 26-11, with zero Democratic votes, allows kids to be bullied… Read More ›
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Syrian rebels ‘used unknown chemicals’ against civilians in Idlib – state news agency
Syrian opposition fighters have allegedly used unknown chemicals against residents in the town of Saraqib in the northwestern province of Idlib to later put the blame on Assad forces, SANA news agency reports citing a government official. The source stated… Read More ›
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Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity: Study
By Caroline Fairchild President Obama’s call to increase the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour was one of the more significant proposals he laid out in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But $9 an hour is still a far cry from… Read More ›
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Unemployed Man Self-Immolates in Sidi Bouzid
Amira Masrour A young man in his twenties who had trouble finding work self-immolated yesterday in front of the town hall in the governorate of Sidi Bouzid. Ibrahim Slimani poured gasoline over his body and set himself alight in front… Read More ›
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Mountain Dew Pulls Terrible Racist Ad
By Aisha Harris Mountain Dew recently released three new ads featuring a crazed goat voiced by rapper Tyler, the Creator, who was also the mastermind behind the commercials. The goat is seen attacking a waitress after she gives him the soda,… Read More ›
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Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2013!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
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Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to turn them into “men”
Game ranger course ‘general’ is on trial for murder, child abuse, neglect and allegedly forced teen to eat his own feces BY JOE MORGAN Three ‘gay and effeminate’ teens have died after being starved, tortured and killed at a camp that… Read More ›
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Hundreds of thousands of Bangladesh’s garment workers walk out in protest over factory deaths
By Agence France-Presse Hundreds of thousands of garment workers walked out of their factories in Bangladesh Thursday, police said, to protest the deaths of 200 people in a building collapse, in the latest tragedy to hit the sector. Grief turned… Read More ›
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US Turns Away 1000′s of Cancer Patients, but has 123 Million for Terrorists in Syria
(LD) – The US has announced that it will provide militants in Syria, now openly admitted to being Al Qaeda terrorists, with $123 million in military aid – while thousands of cancer patients at home are being turned away from clinics… Read More ›
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Chicago’s Fast Food Workers: “We Can’t Survive on $8.25”
BY DAVID MOBERG On a normal day, Sonia Acuña, a petite 41-year old mother of four, puts on her bright red McDonald’s cap and reports to work at a branch of the giant hamburger chain in Chicago’s main rail terminal, Union… Read More ›
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Obama Signs 2013 NDAA, Blocking Closure of Gitmo
Obama initially threatened a veto, but instead signed it into law with a vague proviso by John Glaser President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the $633 billion defense authorization bill despite provisions that block any attempt to close the Guantanamo… Read More ›
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Editorial: We Went to a Men’s Rights Lecture in Toronto
And We Discovered that They’re a Bunch of Losers By Brad Casey In November of last year the University of Toronto hosted a lecture by Dr. Warren Farrell, a divisive figure who has been described simultaneously as a sage of… Read More ›
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Of Flags & Butter: An Analysis of American White Supremacy Through Symbols
American racism and white supremacy is not limited to the physical realm, but is also a mental phenomenon – it is possible for the mind to be colonized by racist and white supremacist ideology, just as it is possible for… Read More ›
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US to give $123 million military aid package to Syrian rebels
As Syria’s opposition forces and their main international allies meet in Istanbul, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has announced that the US will double its non-lethal military aid to Syria’s rebels. The US$123 million defense aid package was… Read More ›
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Israel injects Palestinian prisoners with dangerous viruses
The Israeli regime injects Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with “dangerous viruses” before releasing them, a report says. “A Palestinian released from Israeli jails, Rania Saqa, has brought to light that the Israeli regime injected detainees that are out of… Read More ›
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