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Do We Focus on Terrorism Too Much? | Wealthy Could Take Big Losses in Next Downturn | Will Bush Finally Get Prosecuted for Torture?
America's
Focus on Terrorism Blinds Us To Everyday Violence and
Suffering
Steven
Rosenfeld, AlterNet
There’s something amiss about
disregarding everyday violence, just because it’s the rule
and not the exception. READ
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Bush
and His Cronies Bear 'Ultimate Responsibility' for Torture
-- So What's Stopping Us from Prosecuting
Them?
Robert Parry, Consortium News
"No
person is above the law," right? READ
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Will
White America Think Twice About Calling Itself 'Caucasian'
After Boston Bombings?
Sarah Kendzior, Al Jazeera
English
Despite the Boston bombers having little to
do with Chechnya, the media were quick to demonise an entire
ethnicity.
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Rick
Ross as a Mirror for the Music Industry and Culture as a
Whole
By Toni Nagy, AlterNet
Ross took an
accepted paradigm and pushed it too far, but his words are
just an extreme reflection of what is tragically a cultural
phenomenon. READ
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The
Biotech Industry Has Trotted Out a Flimsy Lie to Avoid
Labeling the Food We Buy as Genetically
Modified
By Zack Kaldveer, Ronnie
Cummins, AlterNet
The idea that labeling GMO food
will burdensome and costly is phony baloney. READ
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Josh
Fox's 'Gasland' Sequel Opens, a Tour Through a Land of
Abandoned Homes and Broken Promises
By Alison Rose
Levy, AlterNet
Gasland Part II contends that an
industry should not be allowed to break what it cannot
fix.
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Economic
Slowdown Coming - Even for the Fatcats
By Yves
Smith, Naked Capitalism
Do they hear the sound of
the air hissing out of the economy?
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Have
Black Americans Left Baseball?
By Keli Goff, The
Root
The decline of African-American participation in
baseball is a stark contrast to the days of the Negro
Leagues when baseball was seen as more than a mere sport but
was also a community pastime.
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Israel-Based
Therapist Releases Sex Manual for Ultra-Orthodox
Jews
By Katie McDonough, Salon
The book is
the first of its kind, and features a sealed envelope of
"sexually explicit" illustrations.
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Recent Victories for the Common Good
By David
Morris, On the Commons
The past few weeks have
brought us some heartwarming demonstrations that the popular
will still has a bite.
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ENDS
Day One Hapai te Haeata: Call To Action For Young Filmmakers Against The Backdrop Of Funding Cuts
Toyota New Zealand: Three Races For Top Three To Decide TR86 Title
Wellington City Council: Wellington Is All Action Stations For The Faultline Ultra Festival
Melanie Allison: Local Playwright Casts A Spell Over Hamilton
Te Kohao Health: New $12M Wellness & Diagnostic Centre Opens In Hamilton ‘Disrupting The Historic Continuum’ For Māori
Vegetables NZ: Fresh NZ-grown Vegetables Now Even Better Value For Cash Strapped Kiwis