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Xenophobia in San Francisco: Why Are Muslim Schoolgirls Still Getting Bullied?
A December study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations showed 50 percent of Muslim school kids in California face bullying.
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A Midwest Republican Senator Crusades Against the Corruption of Money In Politics
“I have always thought business should have access to the public square – I never thought anybody should be able to buy the public square, and that’s where we’re at right now."
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Where Risk and Resilience Meet: Elaine Enarson Talks Gender Disaster
'From Hurricane Andrew in Miami to the massive floods of the Red River in the Upper Midwest, I've been privileged to listen as women shared what they did in disasters and how they felt.'
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Corruption Report Slams E.U. Countries for $162 Billion "Abuse of Power for Private Gain"
The first-ever E.U.-wide study on corruption found that the billions lost annually to padded government contracts, covert political financing and bribes for health care could fund the entire E.U. budget.
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In Mass “Fusion Movement“ of the South, Nation Looks to Raleigh As Tea-Party Combatant
The organizer of a “moral march” on Raleigh, N.C., says he wants it to be a loud rebuke against Tea-Party extremism in state legislatures nationwide.
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Political Corruption, Capitalism and the Urgency for System Change
To reduce corruption from its current high levels requires something more than additional laws, commissions, invocations of morality, regulations and so on. It requires basic, structural economic change.
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12 States and Counting: Vermont Legislation Is Latest to Take on NSA Spying
The Green Mountain State last week introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, which would prohibit any state support of the National Security Agency.
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Abandoning Wall Street and Creating a Public Bank for the City of Los Angeles
A Bank of the City of Los Angeles would not compete with commercial banks but would partner with them, using its tax revenue deposits to create interest-free credit for lending programs that go toward funding city projects.
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Cutting Off the NSA's Juice
For the NSA’s top executives, maintaining a vast flow of juice to keep Big Brother nourished is essential — and any interference with that flow is unthinkable.
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Edward Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Two Norwegian politicians say the NSA whistleblower's actions have led to a more stable and peaceful world order.