New Evidence About 250 Million Year Old Crisis
250 million years ago, 90% of the plants and animals on earth were completely wiped out. It has been debated how long it took the earth to recover from the wipeout. But new evidence points to the fact...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The War on Gays
The sentencing of Dharun Ravi for the hateful abuse that may have driven his gay roommate at Rutgers, Tyler Clementi, to commit suicide, or Barack Obama’s public acceptance of gay marriage, prevents...
View ArticleThe President’s Kill List | Is Mr.Obama Truly Peaceful?
Barack Obama campaigned to become the 44th president with vows to close Guantanamo, stop torture and end the war in Iraq. But campaigning and governing are two entirely separate things, as Obama...
View ArticleDid Young Romney Impersonate a Police Officer? Another Witness Says Yes
By Joe Conason When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer—a crime in many states,...
View ArticleFeds Target Medical Marijuana Despite Increased Popular Support
Despite the public’s increased support for the legalization of medical marijuana, the Department of Justice has renewed its crackdown, this time targeting the landlords of dispensaries under laws...
View ArticleThe World Tomorrow: Cypherpunks
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange convened a small meeting of friends and leading Web activists from around the world to discuss the future of the free and private flow of information on the Internet. Hacker...
View ArticleBill Boyarsky: Job by Job - Truthdig
The effort to reduce unemployment is a grueling plant-by-plant, job-by-job process conducted by those seeking work, business people and local officials operating far from the media spotlight and...
View ArticleInternet Heavyweights Band Together; Good or Bad?
The titans of the Web—Facebook, Google, eBay and Amazon—have joined forces to make their voices heard in Washington, forming a powerful lobbying group called the Internet Association. The companies...
View Article‘The Daily Show’: John Stewart Blasts Fox’s Judith Miller for Being Bat S#*T...
Remember when Fox News contributor Judith Miller was a New York Times reporter and in 2002 reported an erroneous leak from the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction...
View ArticleThe Too Good To Be True Story: From a Refugee Camp to the Olympics
In the summer of 2000, Lopez Lomong was 15. Nine of those years he’d spent in a refugee camp in Kenya. He had never seen a television and had no idea what the Olympics were. But when several of his...
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