The burgeoning pro-democracy, anti-Trump movement known as 50501 expects to drive tens and possibly hundreds of thousands to protest in 1,000 cities and towns on Saturday.
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Obama Administration Issues New Fracking Rules to Mixed Response
The Obama administration on Friday made its most significant move yet toward regulating hydraulic fracturing, forcing companies to disclose which chemicals they're injecting into the ground and enabling government inspection of drill sites.
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Gates Foundation Faces Pressure To Divest $1.4 Billion In Fossil Fuels
The Guardian's "Keep It In the Ground" campaign, which launched last week and already has 136,000 supporters, is asking the world's largest charity to dump its investments in firms "dedicated to finding and burning more oil, gas and coal."
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"Kidnapped" Victims of Chicago Police File Federal Civil Rights Suit
Three men have accused police of a "common plan to falsely arrest, illegally detain, and physically abuse" them – and are suing the city of Chicago over their black site-style detention at Homan Square.
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Industry-Paid "Science" Exposed In New U.K. Fracking Report
Imagine a world where the 1% doesn't have a monopoly over science and news – but where we can instead think for ourselves.
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The Most Dangerous Woman in America
The hostility to socialist ideas is fading, as the majority of young Americans are experiencing the deep failures of capitalism.
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Why We Occupy: London School of Economics Students Mobilize For A Free University
Students at LSE join a budding movement against the neoliberal university – and other universities across the U.K. and Europe – by occupying the administration’s meeting room.
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Strategies of the 1 Percent Revealed
Americans often fail to notice the 1 percent’s game.
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Chaos In the Mediterranean: How Humanitarian Hawks and Mainstream Media Misled the World On Libya
As high-level discussions ensue about whether, and how, to embark on an expanded mission to battle ISIS, the cliche rings truer than ever that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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Capitalism Is Just a Story and Other Dangerous Thoughts, Part II
The only way to change our economic system is to change what the system values – and to change the very rules that articulate and maintain those values.
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U.S. Sets New Record For Denying Federal Files Under Freedom of Information Act
The Obama administration redacted and denied government files in record numbers for the second consecutive year.
