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Austerity Kills: Greeks Declare ‘Financial Murder’ at Funeral of Elderly Man
By Andrew Bashi “I am not committing suicide. They are killing me.” According to one witness, these were the last words of 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas
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Pensioner’s Suicide Continues to Shake Greece
By NIKI KITSANTONIS ATHENS — The death of a 77-year-old Greek pensioner who shot himself in the head outside Parliament in despair over his financial
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Data Mining You
by Tom Engelhardt I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another
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On “Bias”
Introduction: Contemporary Bourgeois Journalism Any person who has watched or read a mainstream news source like CNN or Fox News, The New York Times or
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Humanitarian Aid Is Military Intervention
By Joel Poindexter The recent YouTube documentary Kony 2012 has become quite a sensation. It has inspired millions of people to demand, in one form
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Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings
Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison Four New
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Mississippi on way to becoming ‘abortion-free’ state
A bill passed by Mississippi lawmakers putting new restrictions on doctors performing abortions moves the state one step closer to becoming “abortion free.” There is
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Parents of Trayvon Martin ask feds to investigate state prosecutor for nixing efforts to arrest George Zimmerman
The Martin family will send a formal request for a review of State’s Attorney Wolfinger’s actions to the Justice Department on Monday, lawyer Ben Crump
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Trayvon Martin case: Mayor says police resisted release of 911 tapes
SANFORD, Florida — The mayor of the city where Trayvon Martin was killed says he overruled police and prosecutors who opposed the release of tapes
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911 Call: Trayvon Martin cried for help before gunshot
After repeated calls for the release of the 911 audio in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the Sanford police department finally released the
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