There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.
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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.
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Carbon Inequality: World's Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Half Of All CO2
The poorest half of the world meanwhile emits only a fraction of that amount, yet faces severe climate change effects.
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Foreign Fracking Company Quietly Buys Rights To Botswana Conservation Park
Top park officials were not informed of the fracking rights sale at Kgalagadi transfrontier park, borderin South Africa, are now worried about the impact of drilling on rare wildlife.
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Justice for Sale: How Rich Corporations Get Away with Murder
As we saw with the unequal punishments handed down to Peanut Corporation of America and General Motors, the wealthiest corporations – like individuals – can buy their way out of the rule of law.
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Thin Green Line: Does Pacific Northwest Hold Key To Our Climate Future?
With huge gas and coal export terminals planned in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, "this sliver of coast basically is what stands between companies wrecking the climate or not.”
