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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman shake hands in front the media after giving a statement in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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March Against Monsanto Takes Manhattan As Global Protests Approach

Representatives of the March Against Monsanto campaign reported that glyphosate, the major ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide, ‘is consistently being discovered in everything from hospital feeding tubes and tampons to the breast milk of nursing mothers.’

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Monsanto Billboard

NEW YORK --- Shoppers and tourists in Times Square will be alerted to the dangers of genetically modified organisms thanks to a new billboard campaign. The anti-GMO billboard, sponsored by March Against Monsanto, is slated to run from April 25 to May 25 in the Manhattan hotspot. The campaign coincides with the 4th annual March Against Monsanto,

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Boycotting Israel May Soon Become Illegal In The US

Host and MintPress News Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh interviews Rula Rashid of a university chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine about recent efforts to urge the university to divest from Israel, and the resistance the group received from an unexpected source.

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Big donor money is leading to a growing number of efforts to legislate a ban on Boycotting Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgGiQSiNmRI MINNEAPOLIS --- An international movement is putting significant financial pressure on Israel to end its apartheid policies and illegal occupation of Palestine. But politicians and legislators are pushing back, trying to make the movement illegal and quash the free speech rights of participants

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Maduro Warns Of New US-Backed ‘Plan Condor’ Against Left Govts

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said right-wing leaders in South America are generating chaos in order to pave the way for a U.S. intervention.

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Venezuela Anti Imperialist March

A new Plan Condor, similar to the one that took place in the 1970s and 1980s, is being implemented against progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean region, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said during a press conference Tuesday. “The campaign against Venezuela is generating violence and chaos that is allowing an intervention

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Iceland’s ‘Pirate Party’ Is Now The Biggest Political Party

The radical refusal of Icelanders to bow down and accept establishment corruption is admirable.

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Germany's Pirate Party

Iceland’s anti-establishment Pirate Party continues to lead nationwide polls as the most popular choice for the next elections. The party — whose policies include internet freedom, drug decriminalization, and open democracy — has consistently led the polls for the last year and, as a result, has secured more funding than any of its rivals. The

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FBI Whistleblower Reveals Agency’s Use Of Hidden Microphones In Public Spaces

A former special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigations is blowing the whistle about the bureau’s practice of installing microphones in public places, including trees, courthouses, and bus stops.

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FBI agents enter Trenton City Hall, Thursday, July 19, 2012, in Trenton, N.J.

Jeff Harp, a former FBI special agent and security analyst for KPIX 5 in San Francisco, recently told KPIX 5 News that FBI agents regularly hide microphones in indiscriminate locations for surveillance purposes. Harp says that between March 2010 and January 2011, FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland

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Israel Headed To ‘Most Right-Wing Government Ever’

Notorious war-hawk Avigdor Lieberman is slated to take over the Israeli defense ministry.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is slated to become Israel's next defense minister.

Israel’s narrow far-right coalition government has been looking to expand for awhile, with talk of including the center-left Zionist Union to take charge of the stalled peace talks. That possibility appears to be remote, at this point, and instead the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party is said to be coming in. Jewish Home, which hadn’t been keen

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