By Anastasia Pantsios As Republicans get set to test their new majority in the U.S. Senate and their complete control of Congress to push through approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, a new investigative report by editor Lou Dubose at the… Read More ›
Month: November 2014
Anonymous Seized The Klan’s Main Twitter Account This Morning
By skywriter and wouldn’t let go until a short time ago. Anonymous had been in control of the Klan’s main Twitter account @KuKluxKlanUSA since 9 this morning, posting its own pictures on the racists’ account and using the hashtags, #OpKKK #Ferguson… Read More ›
Yes, the Republican Obamacare Strategy Will Kill People
By Jonathan Chait There is a famous thought experiment called the trolley problem, and it goes like this: A runaway trolley is headed toward five people bound on the tracks. You are standing before the switch that could divert it… Read More ›
Jewish Defense League Meets Pastrami
By Menachem Freedman When the news hit my Facebook feed that Ben and Izzy’s, a restaurant in Toronto, had been named “North America’s Top Kosher Deli,” I immediately packed my bags. Under the guise of visiting family, I began a… Read More ›
New solar material converts 90% of captured light into heat
By NEHA KARL Scientists have created the ‘black hole of sunlight’ – a new nanoparticle-based material that absorbs and converts more than 90 percent of captured sunlight to heat. Research from the US have developed a super-Sun-absorbing material that will… Read More ›
Did Voting Restrictions Determine the Outcomes of Key Midterm Races?
By Ari Berman in The Nation Bryan McGowan spent twenty-two years in the US Marine Corps, including four tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. When he was stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina from 2005 until 2010, McGowan used same-day… Read More ›
Ted Cruz’s Big Adventure
If Republicans win the Senate, expect a ferocious tactical clash between Cruz and the actual leader Mitch McConnell “Ted Cruz’s big (awful) plans: Why a clash is coming if GOP wins majority” by Jim Newell in Salon No one’s more… Read More ›
South Florida Wants to Split State Over Climate Change
by Anastasia Pantsios Some may remember a politically motivated proposal to split California into six separate states floated earlier this year. That was basically a proposal by a wealthy venture capitalist for the rich areas to take their ball and go… Read More ›
Swedish FM to Israel’s Lieberman: I’d be happy to send him an IKEA flat pack – “He’ll see it requires a partner, cooperation and a good manual.”
A somewhat unusual war of words took place Thursday, after the new Swedish government made good on a recent pledge to recognize the state of Palestine, a move to which Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman responded furiously. “The Swedish government should… Read More ›
Egyptian activist Mahienour El-Massry receives international rights award
El-Massry dedicated the award she received in Italy to fellow activists still in prison Egyptian activist Mahienour El-Massry received the 2014 Ludovic Trarieux international human rights award in Florence on Friday. El-Massry was announced as the winner of the award… Read More ›
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