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Syria Rebels Threaten to Wipe Out Shiite, Alawite Towns
By Dana El Baltaji Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority will be “wiped off the map” if the strategic city of
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“Environmental genocide”: Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline
Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone
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Red lines and other double standards
By Stephen Gowans According to the White House, Israel has the right to defend itself (1). I would argue that it doesn’t. Based on the
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Outrage over disgusting “cripple Stephen Hawking” jokes after he joins boycott of Israel
By: Charlotte Meredith WORLD renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has faced a barrage of vile abuse today from people furious over his boycott of Israel. The
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Analyzing Barack Obama
Among the many accusations leveled against Barack Obama by the political right, few have become so commonly accepted as the claim that he is a
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Almost half of the world’s food thrown away, report finds
by Rebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondent Figures from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers show as much as 2bn tonnes of food never makes it on to
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Map: Closing Schools Are Overwhelmingly in Minority Neighborhoods
I’ve written before about the unequal geographical distribution of D.C. Public Schools’ planned school closures, with wards 5 and 7 bearing the brunt. But here’s a map
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US chalks up more first-day newborn deaths than rest of industrialized world combined – report
The number of babies dying in their first day of life remains significantly higher in the United States than 33 other leading industrialized nations combined,
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Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed by construction company in Belize
One of the oldest and most famous Mayan pyramids has been destroyed by a construction company in Belize, while digging for crushed rock for a
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1/3rd of Women in US Military Raped
[TRIGGER WARNING: DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE] By Ole Ole Olson According to NPR, “In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped
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