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US Congress And Int’l Community Urge Restraint Ahead Of Possible Strike On Syria

Archives for août 2013

State Department’s Delay Of Keystone Pipeline Reveals Divisions In Administration

The State Department’s decision to push back its recommendation on the Keystone project comes amid pressure from all directions.

Frederick Reese
Par Frederick Reese

On Friday, the U.S State Department’s Office of the Inspector General announced that a contractor review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will not be completed until January, delaying the State Department’s recommendation to proceed with the project. The inspector general’s office is investigating if recommendations made by the State Department

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College Tuition Hikes Deepen Inequality

Data show that while college may still technically be “worth it,” tuition hikes are making higher education inaccessible to many.

Martin Michaels
Par Martin Michaels

The cost of a college education in the U.S. has skyrocketed 538 percent since 1985, according to a Bloomberg News report that used historical data from the U.S. Department of Labor. For millions of students, obtaining a four-year college degree has become a financial burden, forcing many to incur large debts to finance myriad educational expenses.

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How Monsanto Corners The World’s Food Market

Monsanto has a patent on just about every crop out there.

Frederick Reese
Par Frederick Reese
A farmer holds Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Soy Bean seeds at his family farm. (AP Photo / Dan Gill)

On May 25, over two million people in 436 cities, spread out over 52 countries, came out to protest one company. Organizers of the massive march set out to call attention to the dangers of genetically modified food and how a small handful of companies are endangering the world. In 2011, NaturalNews declared Monsanto the most evil corporation of

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What Was Going On Between Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian And Stratfor?

A WikiLeaks trove of leaked emails shows that the Reddit co-founder offered to consult for the infamous private intelligence firm, among other things.

Katie Rucke
Par Katie Rucke

On Monday, the social media website Reddit was abuzz with discussions and questions regarding an email exchange between the site’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian and the intelligence contractor Stratfor, which had been released to the public by WikiLeaks. The email thread, which appears to have been initiated by Ohanian himself in January 2011, has as

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PhD in Weed: Meet The 82 Year Old Cannabis Scientist

In 1964, he was the first person to synthesize THC, tetrahydrocannabinol, the principal active ingredient in weed.

Noga Tarnopolsky
Par Noga Tarnopolsky
MarijuA caregiver picks out a marijuana bud for a patient at a marijuana dispensary in Denver. Pot smokers in Colorado were the biggest winners in the vote that legalized the drug. Now state regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax it, so the benefits are shared statewide in the form of increased revenue. A state panel meets Thursday to draft final recommendations based on the voter-approved marijuana legalization question that asked for excise taxes up to 15 percent to fund school construction.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)ana

JERUSALEM — An award-winning professor of medicinal chemistry and natural products at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Raphael Mechoulam is a trim gentleman who wears tweed jackets and silk scarves. He is no slacker. At 82, he still works full-time. Despite Mechoulam's respectability, his greatest fame stems from two scientific

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US Media ‘Beats The Drums Of War’

The whispers and public statements might be coming from the White House and Pentagon, but it seems U.S. media outlets are the real amplifiers of the call to strike Syria.

Jon Queally
Par Jon Queally

What the US media still doesn't know about the use of chemical weapons in Syria last week has done little to keep it from accepting statements from the US government with barely a whiff of the skepticism one would expect after the colossal—and well-documented—media failure that preceded the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And if there were voices

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