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Will Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Stop Meaning Anything When Climate Change Hits?

Sandra Steingraber
Orion Magazine
My kids and their friends and everyone roughly their age will, in fact, be the last human beings to remember a stable, predictable procession of seasons.

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How America's National Security Apparatus -- in Partnership With Big Corporations -- Cracked Down on Dissent

Alex Kane
AlterNet
A new report is an eye-opening look into how the U.S. counter-terror apparatus was used to track the Occupy movement.

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Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn Demands Tornado Relief Be Offset by Cuts Elsewhere

Alex Kane
AlterNet
Coburn’s callous position was announced as the death toll and devastation in Oklahoma was coming into full view.

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Moyers/Winship: Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
BillMoyers.com
As long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its powerful lobbies, we are at their mercy.

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How America Became a Third World Country

Mattea Kramer, Jo Comerford
TomDispatch
The impact of sequester down the line.
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US Marshals Hold Innocent Family At Gun Point, Tell Them Not to Move Even After They Realize They've Got Wrong House

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Police Tase Foreclosed Upon Homeowners Protesting Criminal Bankers, Criminal Bankers Continue Facing No Repercussions

Red State Hypocrites: Inhofe and Coburn

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Watch: The Touching Moment a Mother Sees Her Young Son Alive and Well for the First Time Since Tornado Hit

6 Ways Oklahoma's GOP Senators Have Fought to Undermine Relief Funding

Rebecca Leber / Think Progress

It's Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh

Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

Horrifying New Trend: Posting Rapes to Facebook

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

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Elderly Woman Dies in Court "Gasping for Breath" After Sheriff's Deputies "Callously" Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims

80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Got Arrested Protesting Right-Wing Agenda for Schools

The Long, Sordid History of the American Right and Racism

Nerds, Jocks and Jailed Dissidents: Inside the World of Israel’s High School War Resisters

Our Govt. Is Turning into a Surveillance State That's Almost Impossible to Stop

Murtaza Hussain / Al Jazeera English

Death Toll Continues to Rise After Devastating Oklahoma Tornado

AFP

Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year

Stan Cox / AlterNet

Bill Moyers: 12 Ways You Can Avoid Toxic Chemicals

Lauren Feeney / Bill Moyers  

12-Year-Old Girl Raped, Video Posted to Facebook by Alleged Attackers

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Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Breaks, While the Confused, Screwed Citizenry Turn On Each Other

Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog  

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

Teen Girl Faces Felony Charge Over Lesbian Relationship, Mom Blames "Religious Zealot Parents"

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Tourists Encouraged to Gawk At, Mock Poor in Horrifying "GHETTO" Bus Tour in Bronx

Alex Kane / AlterNet

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GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should Starve Rather Than Get Food Stamps

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Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police -- Or Face 1 Year in Jail

Ian Millhiser / Think Progress  

Former "Hero" Cop Accused of Raping Women at Gun Point

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued

What is Paper Terrorism? Anti-Gov't Nuts File Tens of Thousands of False Docs as "Sovereign Citizens"

Jillian Rayfield / Salon

Traffic Ticket Camera Company Channels Kafka, Threatening Court Appearances, Even Though "No Such Court Exists"

Courthouse News

The Other IRS Scandal: Outright War Against Marijuana Dispensaries

Clarence Walker / Drug War Chronicle

Will Banksters at JPMorgan Chase Finally Pay for Their Misdeeds?

Is Nestle Involved in Murder Of Colombian Union Leader?

Meet the Senate's Powerful and Progressive Policy Wonk, Ron Wyden

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Towns' Latino Community Totally Unsurprised That Police Beat Man to Death for No Reason and Tried to Cover it Up

How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'

Fran Quigley / AlterNet

Outrageous Attacks on Supporters of Church-State Separation: Death Threats, Murdered Pets, and Vandalized Property

Adam Lee / AlterNet

How a Well-Meaning Progressive Accidentally Launched Powerball Lottery Industry Across America

Matthew Vaz / In These Times

Inside the Controversy Over Man Charged with Murder for Slipping an Abortion Pill to Pregnant Girlfriend

Can America Come to Terms with Boston Bombing Suspect's Stated Motives?

Why You Can't Sleep: The Science of Insomnia

Only the Koch Brothers Could Make Rupert Murdoch Look Like Journalism’s Savior

Elizabeth Warren Is Turning Out as Good as Promised

Robert Scheer / Truthdig

Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Alaska Must Be Stopped

Subhankar Banerjee / Seven Stories Press

Fuel on a Mideast Fire: U.S. Intervention in Syria Would Make Catastrophic Situation Even Worse

Phyllis Bennis / OpenDemocracy

Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores

Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection

Being a Democracy Hating, Corporate Power-Defending Newspaper Owner Runs Deep in the Koch Family

6 Key Takeaways From the Stupidity and Reality of IRS 'Scandal'

Punk at the Met: For People Who've Never Had to Safety-Pin Their Clothes

Ayesha Adamo / AlterNet

How America's Endless Civil War Between Protestant Sects Is at the Heart of American Identity

Hazel Rose Markus Alana Conner / Hudson Street Press

Bill Moyers: Our Media Is Polluted by Toxic Lies About the Risks Posed by Lead

Bill Moyers, David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz / BillMoyers.com

Synthetic Marijuana Turns People Into Zombies, Says Atrocious Govt. Anti-Drug Propaganda

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