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“It Was Time to Do More Than Protest”: 1971 Burglars Who Exposed COINTELPRO Reveal Their Identities. HeadlinesJanuary 8, 2014 Polar Vortex Begins to Lift After 9 Deaths in U.S. Extension of Jobless Benefits Face GOP Challenge Despite Senate Vote JPMorgan Pays $2.6 Billion Fine to Avoid Criminal Charges in Madoff Case Iraq Violence Leaves … Continued
Court Ruling on Gay Marriage Ban Makes Utah an Unlikely New Front in Struggle for LGBT Equality; Weather Whiplash: As Polar Vortex Brings Deep Freeze, Is Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change? From Sandy to Haiyan, Year of Extreme Weather Brings More Coverage of Climate Change; From Funding Climate Deniers to Shadowy Groups, Koch Brothers … Continued
Rethinking Marijuana: As Colorado Opens World’s First Pot Retail Stores, NY to Allow Medical Usage; “Drugs Aren’t the Problem”: Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths about Addiction; A Socialist Elected in Seattle: Kshama Sawant on Occupy, Fight for 15, Boeing’s “Economic Blackmail.” HeadlinesJanuary 6, 2014 Iraq Loses Control of Fallujah, Key Site … Continued
Texas Student: After Reporting Rape, I Was Accused of “Public Lewdness,” Sent to Disciplinary School; NAFTA at 20: Lori Wallach on U.S. Job Losses, Record Income Inequality, Mass Displacement in Mexico; Zapatista Uprising 20 Years Later: How Indigenous Mexicans Stood Up Against NAFTA “Death Sentence.” HeadlinesJanuary 3, 2014 Sunni Militants Lay Siege to Key … Continued
Newly Elected Mayor Bill de Blasio: NYC Cannot Become the “Exclusive Domain of the One Percent”; Harry Belafonte Urges de Blasio to Fight Poverty, Stop-and-Frisk & “Dickensian Justice System”; Public Advocate Letitia James: Time to Tackle “Gilded Age of Inequality” in New York City; “We Will No Longer Stay Silent To This Classism”: NYC Youth … Continued
Orwellian or a Blunt Tool?: Conflicting Rulings on NSA Spying Set Up Likely Supreme Court Showdown; Glenn Greenwald: The NSA Can “Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make”; Jobless Benefits Cut For 1.3 Million, Despite Highest Long-term Unemployment Since World War II. HeadlinesDecember 30, 2013 Opposition Activists: Over 500 Killed in Syrian Attacks on Aleppo … Continued
