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The Law Of Partial Pressures: Paris COP21 Is Filled with John Daltons and Few Republicans
The view of America from Paris, from Europe and most of the world reveals a once-great nation that has become a floundering token of retrograde thinking led by anti-futurism and anti-humanism.
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Justice Department to Open Ferguson-Style Inquiry Into Chicago PD
U.S. attorneys will investigate whether the police department systemically engaged in constitutional violations of policing.
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Could Carbon Emitters In Air and On Sea Weaken Paris Climate Deal?
The international aviation and shipping industries make up more than 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions – yet these sectors may escape oversight in this month's Paris deal.
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Billionaire Bonanza: America's Richest 20 Own More Than Half The People
A new report, "Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us," has produced startling revelations about the growing heights of inequality in the U.S.
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Exclusive: Greece's Former President of Parliament On Why Syriza Party Broke Its Pledge to the People
“They are trying to bury us – but they forget when you bury a seed it is only going to flourish,” says Zoe Konstantopoulou, the former President of Greek Parliament.
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Climate Movement: 500 Institutions Have Pledged $3.4 Trillion in Carbon Divestments
The list of institutions committed to ridding their portfolios of fossil fuel interests has surged in recent months, organizers said at the Paris climate summit.
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Oregon Provides Beacon of Hope for Gun Reform Momentum
By focusing on gun control, Oregon activists managed to turn the 2014 election into a referendum on guns – and when the dust and the dollars settled, two pro-gun control candidates won.
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Why Protests Haven't Stopped Over Minneapolis Police Killing Of Jamar Clark
Activists are calling not only for justice for Clark but also for an end to racist policing and unequal socioeconomic structures throughout the city and state.
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Privacy Advocates In Uproar Over UK Cyber Surveillance Bill
Following terror attacks on Paris last month, the spectre of a Draft Investigatory Powers Bill now looms over Britain as lawmakers debate instituting the most invasive cyber-surveillance regime to date.
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Paris Dispatch: Baselines for Our Occupying Earth Have Been Breached
In the global slugfest going on now in Paris over feasible outcomes and future dangers, the relevant – and unprecedented – number to remember is 400 parts per million of carbon in the air.
