In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.
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New Book Exposes Scientific and U.S. Government Fraud Over Safety Of GMO's
U.S. government and leading scientific institutions have systematically misrepresented the facts about GMOs and the scientific research that casts doubt on their safety.
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Cash Cops: How Civil Forfeiture Enriched U.S. Law Enforcement
The very people who are supposed to enforce the law are the ones who profit from ignoring it.
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Dot-Com Inequality: Why A Rising Silicon Valley Doesn't Lift All Boats
Interventions that address the needs of working people – in the form of collective organizing and smart public policy – are required as inequality spirals higher in the world's tech center.
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Florida Banned State Workers From Using Term "Climate Change"
Florida is most susceptible to the effects of global warming.
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Tens Of Thousands Attend Anti-Netanyahu Rally In Tel Aviv
Israel wants change.
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Tens of Thousands March on Selma As Attorney General Declares Voting Rights Act "Under Siege"
Speaking Sunday in Selma, AG Eric Holder said hard-won protections for African Americans are under threat – and that the Civil Rights Movement's work is not done as long as racial barriers remain at U.S. voting booths.
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Wages, Tuition, Housing: Why Young U.K. Voters Are Going Green
The party hits all the right notes with millennials.
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4 Million People Demand New Protection For Bees Against Toxic Insecticides
More than 125 conservation, beekeeping, food safety, religious and farming advocacy groups rallied last week at the White House to call for an end to neonicotinoids – toxic pesticides that are killing off bees critical to life on Earth.
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Discrimination in Ferguson: Full Extent of Police Bias Laid Bare In Damning Justice Report
The full extent of the racial persecution of black residents in Ferguson, Missouri, by the city’s overwhelmingly white law enforcement authorities was disclosed on Wednesday in
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Demanding A Debate on the Trans-Pacific Partnership – History's Largest Trade Deal
A fast-tracked TPP would lock in a rigged set of economic rules, lasting potentially forever, before most Americans — let alone some members of Congress — have had a chance to understand it thoroughly.
