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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
Beyond Plan Colombia: Covert CIA Program Reveals Critical U.S. Role in Killings of Rebel Leaders; Did Covert U.S. Program Targeting Rebel Leaders Help Undermine Colombia’s Peace Process? Ex-Rebel Leader Faces Ouster as Bogota Mayor After Longtime Advocacy of Reconciliation; Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor of Eponymous Assault Rifle That Shaped Modern Warfare, Dead at 94. HeadlinesDecember 24, … Continued
