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• Video: FSA Leader Defects to ISIL and Exposes FSA as a Saudi-Israeli Run Project

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

• ‘Day of rage’: Police, protesters clash in Israel at plans to evict 40,000 Bedouins

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Hundreds gathered in Israel on Saturday to rally against the government’s plans to resettle some 40,000 Bedouins. The proposal has triggered accusations of “discrimination” and “ethnic cleansing” from activist groups, also sparking a protest in the UK. The demonstrations were… Read More ›

• Controversial study linking GM corn to tumors in rats retracted

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Since its publication in September 2012, a study that showed rats fed Monsanto’s glyphosate-resistant NK603 maize developed more tumors than controls has been roundly criticized for its poor experimental design and dubious statistical methods. Yesterday, the study was retracted. The retraction was initiated by the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology after the… Read More ›

• When the ‘Pilgrims’ Ate Human Flesh On Thanksgiving

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Thanksgiving means many things to many people. To the average American, it is a time of giving thanks for what we have. A time of watching football, getting ready to spend obscene amounts of money on Black Friday “sales”: camping… Read More ›

• Los Angeles to join New York and 50 other U.S. cities with ban on feeding homeless people

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Clare Kim As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County continues to rise, the City Council is weighing a ban on feeding homeless people in public areas.  City Council members Tom LaBonge and Mitch O’Farrell, both Democrats, introduced the resolution… Read More ›

• Women Take on Fighting Role in Syria’s Kurdish North

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Jamie Dettmer QAMISHLI, SYRIA — In Syria’s northeast, women are taking on unusually prominent roles in Kurdish security forces. On the outskirts of the Kurdish town of Derik, close to the Iraqi border, a billboard displays the photographs of more than… Read More ›

• Why Poor People’s Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Linda Tirado What we know about poverty is often academic. It’s rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that. There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random… Read More ›

• Is the US Exploiting Typhoon Suffering to Win Military Bases in the Philippines?

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by John Glaser Last week I wrote about the potential for the Obama administration’s Asia-Pivot strategy to inflame anti-colonialist sentiment. I lamented that Washington tries simply to get around this popular opposition to the military surge in East Asia instead of acknowledging that… Read More ›

• Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between… Read More ›

• Butt-groping, bachelorette parties and rape threats: Rob Ford’s non-crack scandals

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Yes, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s a crack-smoking, vicious, xenophobic, Tea Party hack. But it actually gets even worse JB STANIFORTH Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s admission yesterday that he smoked crack “in one of [his] drunken stupors” brings a long-awaited end… Read More ›

• Armed men burn records of El Salvador war missing

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By MARCOS ALEMAN SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Armed men broke into a nonprofit agency that works to locate children missing from El Salvador’s civil war and set fire to the group’s archives, national fire officials said Thursday. The intruders… Read More ›

• Israel Agrees to Return Stolen Organs of Dead Palestinians

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Palestinians carry the body of Jihad Aslan during his funeral at Qalandiya Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah Aug. 26, 2013. (Reuters) Israel has agreed to return organs of dead Palestinians harvested by its forensic pathologists during… Read More ›

• Clashes between residents and militia leave dozens dead, hundreds injured in Libyan capital

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Libya’s prime minister has demanded that all armed militias leave Tripoli “without exception,” after clashes between militiamen and armed residents left dozens dead and almost 400 wounded. At least 43 people were reportedly killed in Friday’s street fighting, one of… Read More ›

• Colorado store makes history as first to offer recreational marijuana in the US

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A small store in Central City, Colorado has made history by becoming the first establishment in the US to be granted a license to sell recreational marijuana. Annie’s Central City Dispensary, located in a city founded during the Pike’s Peak… Read More ›

• On the 34th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  On November 8, 1979 a group of comrades tempered and steeled in the battle against fascism, reaction and revisionism came together and formed what would become the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) – PC (AP). In the three decades that… Read More ›

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