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  'US staggering under cost of military': A journalist and political commentator warns that US senators’ investment in country’s military complex is “doing...
  FBI can secretly turn on Webcams: The FBI has developed advanced surveillance techniques that give it the power to covertly activate Web cams to spy on un...
  
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  Thai prime minister dissolves parliament: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says she will dissolve parliament and hold election "as soon as possible".
  Venezuela's ruling party leads local polls: President Maduro's ruling party has won a majority of votes in Sunday's local elections.
  
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  (Italiano) Pace in Colombia?: In questa conferenza si sta usando una parola molto controproducente: post-conflitto, invece di post-violenza. Non confo...
  Brazil Confirms Secure Satellite Deal to Stifle U.: Brazil’s state-owned telecom provider Telebras signed a $560 million contract to deliver a satellite for secure commun...
  
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  Assange Marks 3 Years in Embassy, Still No Charges: Michael Ratner, lawyer of Wikileaks founder, says his client wants to clear any allegations of sexual misconduct in Swed...
  Barbados Faces Debt Crisis as an Offshore Tax Have...: James Henry: Canadian companies use Barbados as a tax haven to reduce their taxes from 24 percent to 2.5 percent, leavin...
  
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  Veteran school trustee Allan Wong crosses the floo...: Straight Talk »Wong was first elected to the Vancouver board of education in 1999.Veteran school trustee Allan Won...
  City staff recommend rate hike after neighbourhood...: Straight Talk »The city budgeted a $1.05-million loss, but in 2013, it will reach nearly $1.5 million.City staff r...
  
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  Filmmaker Danny Schechter: The Anti-Apartheid Move...: We speak to documentary filmmaker Danny Schechter and Father Michael Lapsley in Cape Town. Schechter has made six nonfic...
  Soweto Activist: While Mandela Helped Build "...: Residents of Soweto began morning outside the former home of Nelson Mandela soon after his death was announced. We go to...
  
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  Climate politics must be as radical as the climate...: To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality.
  On the nature and causes of environmental violence: "We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate b...
  
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  Dale Sorensen and Mark Sullivan of the Honduras So...: For this weeks Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips begin with a discussion with Dale...
  Project Censored for the Holidays: Give or get the gift of Project Censored membership for as little as $5 this holiday season and get the newest Project C...
  
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  Remembering his anti-colonialist struggles is the...: Millions around the world are mourning the loss of the symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle, Nelson Mandela. But people...
  rabble.ca's weekly blog roundup!: Nelson Mandela, human rights activist and South Africa’s first democratically elected president, died yesterday at the...
  
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  Freedom to Oppress: Why We Shouldn’t Do P.R. For...: Freedom to Oppress: Why We Shouldn’t Do P.R. For The Police Riaz Sayani-Mulji The Canadian Civil Liberties Association...
  “Don’t Play With The Dictator:” Politics and...: “Don’t Play With The Dictator:” Politics and 2014 World Hockey Championships in Belarus Mark Norman Sp...