From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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Code Pink's Medea Benjamin Interrupts Obama's Counterterror Speech
Even Medea Benjamin was surprised she managed to get into President Barack Obama's major national security address at National Defense University.
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Big Coal Faces Even Bigger Opposition in Pacific Northwest
The Kinder Morgan victory -- in which a powerful energy company retracted plans to build a coal export terminal on the Columbia River in Oregon -- provides a good case study for how communities have been able to beat back the coal industry.
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Homeowners Jailed, Protesters Brutally Tased at DOJ Demonstrations
A two-day long housing protest outside the Department of Justice this week has resulted in nearly 30 arrests and several instances of law enforcement unnecessarily using tasers on activists.
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Revealed: Antiwar.com Sues FBI For Years of Targeted Surveillance
The website’s founders maintain that their site is a legitimate expression of free speech and that they have been unjustly targeted for observation by the FBI.
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NY State and Local Retirement Fund Campaigns to Divest from Fossil Fuels
The campaign aims to halt public investments in the fossil fuel industry.
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In Europe, March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant
Momentum is building across Europe, country by country and region by region, to outlaw the biotech giant.
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Thousands of UC Hospital Workers Strike for Safer Staffing, Pensions
13,000 workers at seven campuses of University of California hospitals began a two-day strike on Tuesday to protect their pensions and enhance patient care.
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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
People sometimes have the power to make change happen — if and when they come together and act.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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Saving Our Economy With Public Banking
Public banking could be the antidote to free us from our dependency on Wall Street and put monetary power in the people's hands.
