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  ‘Impact of anti-Iran sanctions can be cut’: Presidential candidate Mohammad-Reza Aref says the impact of illegal sanctions against Iran can be cut by interacting wi...
  Drone use legal, effective, just: Obama: US President Barack Obama has defended his administration's use of drones as legal, effective, and just.
  
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  UK names soldier murdered in London: Victim identified as Lee Rigby, 25, who once served in Afghanistan, as two more are arrested on conspiracy to murder.
  US Boy Scouts vote to end ban on gays: Nearly two-third of delegates vote to allow openly gay youths to join organisation, but ban on adult leaders remains.
  
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  Dispatch #1 from the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria...: “When can we go back?” This plaintive question of refugees since time immemorial was asked again of Nobel Peace L...
  Dispatch #2 from the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria: As I begin to compose this, I hear what sounds like artillery and rocket fire in the distance, mixed with occasional sma...
  
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  U.S. Alone Refuses to Accept Venezuelan Election R...: Gregory Wilpert: In spite of a new audit of election results that shows a win by Maduro that is recognized by all countr...
  Obama Expands Militarization of Police: Among items transfered to local law enforcement agencies have been assault rifles and grenade launchers, even Blackhawk...
  
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  Bob Simpson: The government we deserve: Commentary »There’s an adage that we get the government we deserve—it remains to be seen what that means for B...
  Health Canada to lift some restrictions on blood d...: LGBT »Health Canada announced on May 22 that it will be lifting a ban on male blood donors who have had sex with m...
  
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  Mexican Priest Alejandro Solalinde on Central, Sou...: As Congress continues to shape an immigration reform bill that could provide a path to citizenship for some 11 million u...
  Ríos Montt Genocide Verdict Annulled, But Activis...: As Guatemala's high court annuls former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt's genocide conviction, we're joined by two people w...
  
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  Terracide: Destroying the planet for profit: It's the biggest crime in history. Big Oil is deliberately making Earth uninhabitable, and getting rich doing it.
  Climate colonialism, illustrated: 99% of disease caused by climate change occurs in developing countries, and 88% of that affects children under age 5...
  
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  Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Exposes Dangers o...: The explosion that killed 14 at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas in April 2013 raises new concerns over OSHA funding an...
  Screen Propaganda, Hollywood and the CIA: Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, those are only a few major recent productions showing how today’s movie in...
  
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  Social spaces in Vancouver: Changing the conversat...: Thursday, May 23, 2013 With Vancouver's condo-friendly lan...
  Briefing from the frontlines of resistance to the...: On May 17, the Council of Canadians hosted a live broadcast from Lima where trade justice activists were attending a 17t...
  
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  Militarism and Sports – Part II (A Response): Militarism and Sports – Part II (A Response) Tyler Shipley A couple of years ago, I wrote a short article expressing m...
  Militarism and Sports – Part I (A Call): Militarism and Sports – Part I (A Call) Peter Miller and Daniel Lyder An oft-repeated opinion in the sports media...