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Eyes on the Spies: Art In the Age of Hyper Surveillance
A new exhibition opening Thursday in San Francisco depicts the depth and breadth of spying, listening, recording and gathering data.
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Texas Governor Prohibits Cities and Towns from Banning Fracking
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that prohibits cities and towns from banning an oil drilling practice known as hydraulic fracking, giving the state sole authority over oil and gas regulation.
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Protesters for Third Day Block Access to Shell Oil Rig at Seattle Port
Hundreds of protesters assembled early Monday to prevent workers from reaching the rig that the company plans to bring to Alaska's Chukchi Sea this summer.
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Elizabeth Warren Issues Scathing Report On America's – and Obama's – Broken Trade Promises
Warren's report detailed decades of failed trade enforcement by American presidents, including the current one.
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German Resistance And Europe's Growing Rebellion Against U.S. Transatlantic Trade Deal
The tide of public resistance against a proposed free trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union is rising in Germany, as opponents say the plan would harm democracy and rule of law.
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20,000 Macedonians Take to the Streets Demanding Government's Resignation
The Balkan country has been thrown into political crisis with the government implicated in a massive wire-tapping scandal and rigged elections, the opposition leader accused of plotting a coup, and 18 shot dead last week in a bloody gun battle.
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B.C. First Nation Group Rejects $1 Billion Offer for Natural Gas Terminal on Ancestral Lands
"This is not a money issue: this is environmental and cultural."
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Thousands of Kayaktivists Swarm Shell Drilling Rig In Seattle
People from sHellNo.org, Greenpeace and other organizations as well as media outlets from around the U.S. showed up to support and document the huge flotilla event.
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Does Emergence of Scottish Power Signal the End of the United Kingdom?
Britain’s election shows it's no longer a united kingdom, that Scottish independence is increasingly likely – and that the new Conservative government will only further fracture an already deeply unequal society.
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Moratorium Now! Tax Foreclosures On Thousands of Detroit Homes Will Have Devastating Effects
If carried out as expected, this year's tax foreclosures in Detroit will comprise the largest number of foreclosures in any municipality in history – and they're not even being carried out by big heartless banks, but rather by local government.
