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A Grand Juror Speaks
The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way. By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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Saving the World’s Only True Wild Horses
If not for the obsessive devotion of three young Dutch activists, the Przewalski’s horse would have gone extinct.
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Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans Pacific Partnership: “This Is A Big Deal”
Trade agreements are about more than business—they’re about who has final say in the way people around the world live, what they eat, how much they are paid, what medicines they can buy and whether they have jobs. Such agreements shape economic policies that impact billions of people. The discussions surrounding these agreements are far too important to done in secret. But that’s precisely how the Obama administration is trying to pass the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
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The Coming Death, and Afterlife, of the NSA Spying Law
The Patriot Act provision that authorized mass surveillance on Americans is set to expire, but don’t be fooled: The snooping is likely to continue. In an interview with Truthdig, Sen. Ron Wyden calls ending dragnet surveillance a “big priority.” By Thor Benson
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NATO and the Two Central Conflicts of the Ukraine Crisis
Where I live (the Netherlands), if you were to call NATO the world’s most dangerous institution, a consensus would quickly form to conclude that you must have lost your marbles. Yet, without NATO we would not have a Ukraine crisis, and no speculations about the possibility of war with Russia. Taking nuclear war seriously...
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How Does Wall Street Work? Only One-Quarter Of Investment Bank Revenue Comes From Activities In The Real Economy
Only about one-quarter of the cash flowing into global investment banks derives from activity in the real economy.
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The final rhapsody of Charles Bowden
A visit with the famed journalist just before his death. By Scott Carrier
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ACLU files new lawsuit over Obama administration drone 'kill list'
Top civil liberties group calls for greater transparency regarding ‘targeted killing program’ and how officials handle possibility of civilian deaths.
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Fear and Forgetting: The War Nerd in East Timor, Part One
I just got back from a week on a remote military base in East Timor, and boy is my soul tired. Before my week at that base, I would’ve sworn I didn’t have soul in the first place, but something sure got beaten up out there in the bush. I never wanted to go out there, to the provinces where it’s even poorer, muddier, grimmer than here in the so-called big city, Dili. They were frank about it... By Gary Brecher
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'I want it to be a surprise for you'
Christopher Pyne smiles through grilling from David Speers
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Big bills to view public documents discourage public access
The public's right to see government records is coming at an ever-increasing price, as authorities set fees and hourly charges that often prevent information from flowing.
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Oregon man commits no crime, but held in jail for 900 days
Benito Vasquez-Hernandez, 59, is being held as a material witness in the murder case of his son, Eloy Vasquez-Santiago, accused of killing a co-worker who lived in Hillsboro.
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With or without you: How #Putindead scared the hell out of Russian liberals
Something peculiar happened last week. First my friends joked about it. Then it was the hot topic of discussion during a raucous Friday night surprise party with former colleagues working in media. My balkanized Twitter feed looked like an endless sky-blue colored scroll with iterations of the same text popping up in 140 character segments. Though there were still cat photos on Facebook, so the occupation of my social media was not complete.
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House Republican Budget Overhauls Medicare and Repeals the Health Law
The Republicans’ proposed budget partly privatizes Medicare, turns Medicaid into block grants to the states, repeals the Affordable Care Act and reaches balance in 10 years.
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USTR Pushes Congress To Approve Trade Deals... But Threatens Reps With Criminal Prosecution If They Tell The Public What's In Them
For years now, we've been trying to understand why the US Trade Rep (USTR) is so anti-transparency with its trade negotiations. It insists that everything it's negotiating be kept in near total secrecy until everything is settled, and the...
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The ghost children: In the wake of China’s one-child policy, a generation is lost
In 1980, China introduced the one-child policy. In the process, it created a lost generation – second and third children who went unregistered, couldn’t go to school, and who continue to live in the shadows. Nathan VanderKlippe explores the human and economic costs of one of the biggest social experiments in history
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The Missing 43
This exclusive excerpt from “A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the ‘Mexican Drug War,’ ” gives a harrowing account of how 43 Mexican students disappeared last year. - 2015/03/14
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3 European Powers Say They Will Join China-Led Bank
Germany, France and Italy said that they would be part of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which Washington views as a rival to the World Bank.
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‘The Age of Acquiescence,’ by Steve Fraser
Unlike their 19th-century counterparts, today’s superrich face little organized opposition. By Naomi Klein
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Christie Administration Won’t Give Lawmaker Details On Exxon Settlement
The New Jersey Republican’s administration blocked a lawmaker’s open-records request for details about a $225 million deal. By Andrew Perez and David Sirota.
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