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How A Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning
A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June.
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Dark Money Review: Nazi Oil, the Koch Brothers and A Rightwing Revolution
The Koch brothers' nanny was such a fervent Nazi that when France fell in 1940, she resigned and returned to Germany.
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Scientists Now 99.99% Certain Humans Are Responsible for Record Heating Of Earth
13 of the 15 hottest years in the past century and a half occurred between 2000 and 2014 – and researchers found there is a just a 0.01% chance that this happened due to natural variations in the planet’s climate.
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Citizens United Anniversary: How Anthony Kennedy Turned American Democracy Into an "Open Sewer"
Once billed as a “moderate conservative,” Kennedy is a libertarian former corporate attorney from Sacramento who toiled in his father’s scandal-ridden lobbying law firm “influencing” California legislators before Ronald Reagan helped him reach the bench.
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How to Stop an Oil Train: The Hearts-and-Minds Climate Defense That Won Over a Courtroom
The Delta 5 loss was actually a big win as climate activists were found not guilty of blocking a train and guilty only of trespass in the second degree, and sentences were issued with no jail time.
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“Integrate, But Hedge”: China In the Age of Global Governance, Part I
“Hide your brightness; bide your time,” cautioned Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of modern China, who oversaw the country's "opening" into a modern state-capitalist society.
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Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
Orwell failed to anticipate the role pleasure would play in our culture of surveillance.
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"All Risk, No Reward": U.S. Tribes Oppose Massive Pipeline Expansion In Canada
Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project would carry crude from Alberta's tar sands to the Vancouver area to be loaded on to tankers for Asian and U.S. markets – drastically putting the fishing and cultural heritage of U.S. tribes at risk.
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Nader: The Devastating Cost of Monetized Elections
You outnumber the politicos and their entourages everywhere – yet you are the ones who keep paying the price for letting politics remain a deadly form of distracting entertainment with a media obsessed with the horse race rather than the human race.
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Scientists Confirm: Plastic Now Pollutes Every Corner of Earth
A new study shows that plastic waste now covers the planet – with every corner of the globe polluted with the remains of water containers, supermarket bags, polystyrene lumps, compact discs, cigarette filter tips, nylons and other plastics.
