Sweden’s Pirate Party has won a seat in the European Parliament. The group - which campaigned on reformation of copyright and patent law - secured 7.1% of the...
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Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren recently outlined options for geohacking, forcibly reconfiguring parts of the planet's ecology. Since this is a...
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A very clear visualization of how President Obama has been using tax payer dollars since coming into office.
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PHUKET, Thailand - North Korea must completely and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program or face further isolation and "the unrelenting pressure" of...
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We stopped the Vietnam war, purportedly with two pictures, Execution by Eddie Adams, and Nick Út's photo of a naked girl running with her clothes burned...
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After four soldiers were killed in Afghanistan this week, the monthly total raised to 30 US deaths, surpassing all previous moths since the US invasion in 2001. This...
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The Obama administration is increasingly concerned that nuclear-armed North Korea is building mysterious military ties with Burma, another opaque country with a...
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Saudi Arabia made headlines recently when two young Saudi women, Reem, 21, and Nouf, 19 were murdered by their brother who was attempting to restore his...
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Iraq veterans have cited over and over that the U.S. military is profoundly racist by policy. They refer to all Muslims as "hodgie" a slang form of Hajji,...
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Foreign Policy magazine's annual Failed State index is out. Who's your favorite failed state? Is it Somalia? Zimbabwe?
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CAIRO — As Iran’s political elite and clerical establishment splinter over the election crisis, the nation’s most powerful economic, social and...
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Urumqi is the capital and center of Han Chinese power in the province of Xinjiang (formerly East Turkestan). The indigenous Uighur ethnic group has been subjected to...
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China may not be a rich place, but even still it has a lot of income inequality. Throughout hte entire country, we see a big difference between incomes in coastal...
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US Secretary of State Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister Krishna announced a huge treaty deal today, between the largest and second largest democracies in the world....
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Washington, 20 July (WashingtonTV)—A group of Iranian press photographers on Sunday called on the Iranian Photojournalists’ Association to break what they...
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - The lone surviving gunman from last year's Mumbai attacks made a surprise guilty plea on Monday, admitting to a role in the three-day rampage...
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NEW DELHI — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged an “exciting new approach” to relations between the United States and India on Monday,...
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Smoking ban starts and businesses contribute that to a loss in profits.
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By Gabriel Gatehouse BBC News, Baghdad There appear to be growing tensions between the US military and Iraqi security forces. They have arisen over cooperation...
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While the focus is on Dick Cheney’s role, the U.S. has long had a bi-partisan assassination program. By Jeremy Scahill Members of Congress have expressed...
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