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President Obama speaks to Vladimir Putin from the Oval Office

March 1st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community
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Analysis: Ukraine finds its forces are ill-equipped to take Crimea back from Russia

March 1st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Analysis: Ukraine finds its forces are ill-equipped to take Crimea back from Russia While Ukraine has a reasonably large army for a country its size,

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Inequality for All director: Growing income divide threatens society

March 1st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Economic Security

Pubic television’s Bill Moyers talks with Jacob Kornbluth, director of Inequality for All, about the widening disparity between the super wealthy and everyone else.

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Russia to pay for seizing Crimea? Not necessarily

March 1st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Russia is an even tougher country to pressure, too powerful even in the post-Soviet age to rattle with stern lectures or shows of military force,

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Newspapers across America fail to identify wind power critic as hired gun for oil industry

February 28th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Media & Culture, Our Environment

Newspapers across America fail to identify wind power critic as hired gun for oil industry Media Matters takes note of all of the newspapers that

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The impact of testing and natural inequality on our classrooms

February 28th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Education

What many people do not know is that the use of standardized tests has its origins in the Eugenics movement, where basic tenets assert that

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Major General Paul D. Eaton: Dick Cheney has no right to criticize Obama’s defense policy

February 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense

Sirius XM Progress: Major General Paul D. Eaton, who served more than 30 years in the United States Army in combat and post-combat assignments in

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The current time on every continent, visualized

February 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Media & Culture, World Community
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Effort underway in California to ban wasteful plastic bags

February 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

It has become increasingly clear to the public the environmental damage that single-use plastic bags have reaped… This is the beginning of the phase-out of

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Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields four times normal litigation

February 26th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields four times normal litigation The Onion is on a roll this week. The satirical publication’s latest home

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Sheriff John Urquhart praises staff, outlines his high expectations in video message

February 26th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

Watch King County Sheriff John Urquhart’s February 2014 video message to his deputies and staff. Urquhart was elected as sheriff by the citizens of King

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The Onion: American Airlines to phase out complimentary cabin pressurization

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Humor & Satire, Media & Culture, Public Planning

The Onion: American Airlines to phase out complimentary cabin pressurization The Onion brilliantly satirizes the U.S. airline industry’s less-for-more trend, mocking the endless cost-cutting moves

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Stock rallies as BlackBerry strikes back

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Technology

Stock rallies as BlackBerry strikes back Shares in BlackBerry Limited rose again on Tuesday as the Canadian smartphone maker and device management provider unveiled new

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Arizona business groups overwhelmingly opposed to SB 1062

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

The state already is known as being discriminatory… This would muddy the water and give Arizona a more terrible reputation. — Howard Fleischmann, majority owner

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Jan Brewer inundated with calls to veto anti-LGBT bill

February 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics

Jan Brewer inundated with calls to veto anti-LGBT bill Pressure is mounting on Arizona’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, to veto Senate Bill 1062, which would

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Why YouTube’s automated copyright takedown system hurts artists

February 24th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Art, Technology

It is up to me to prove myself innocent by asking eighteen different publishing companies through an automated system to revoke the automated claims. Each

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Jeff Flake: Jan Brewer should veto anti-LGBT bill

February 24th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Party Politics

I hope Governor Brewer vetoes SB 1062. — U.S. Senator Jeff Flake on Twitter, publicly expressing his hope that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will choose

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What the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act accomplished

February 23rd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Economic Security

The stimulus could have done more good had it been bigger and more carefully constructed. But put simply, it prevented a second recession that could

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Haunting photos of abandoned 1984 Winter Olympics facilities

February 22nd, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Haunting photos of abandoned 1984 Winter Olympics facilities A collection of photos collected by Viral Forest show the pathetic condition that Sarajevo’s Olympic facilities are

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Comcast uses philanthropy to recruit amen chorus in D.C., lobbyist says

February 21st, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

If you have a company like Comcast that has been with them for a long time and continues to support them, they will go to

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How the netroots + grassroots turned back the forces of austerity

February 20th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Economic Security

How the netroots + grassroots turned back the forces of austerity The Nation’s Mary Bottari explains how people-powered politics stopped the neoliberal and conservative campaign

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