Germany's Superhighway for Bikes Offers Hope for 'Transformative' Transportation
By While the United States closed 2015 with a record high number of auto sales, Germany offered a potentially “transformative” transportation alternative by opening a stretch of a highway for bikes that is slated to take tens of thousands of cars off the road every day. The stretch of the Radschnellweg RS1 open now, thanks to […]
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Missouri governor to pay ethics fee over donor list violation
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) will pay an ethics fee for violating law by using a donor list from a non-profit, The Associated Press reported Saturday. Greitens, who took office in January, reportedly used a list of donors from The Mission Continues, a veterans non-profit he previously founded. Roy Temple, who last year was the […]
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Trump call for Muslim ban deleted from site after reporter's question
President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s campaign appears to have scrubbed the 2015 press release calling for a halt on Muslim immigration to the […]
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DNC picks Ellison aide for senior adviser role
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is formalizing a new position for a top political aide to Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison (D), a move that comes as the party tries to bring progressives into the fold. Ellison lost a contentious bid for DNC chairman to former Obama administration Labor Secretary Tom Perez in February. Since then, […]
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Biodegradable is Bunk: World's 'Ocean Waste Baskets' Still Filled With Plastic Trash
Plastics in the world’s oceans, whether floating or resting at the bottom, is a problem that’s on the rise, and is said to have “reached crisis proportion.” And while they may be assumed to be more eco-friendly, plastics labeled “biodegradable” still pose a threat to marine environments, a new United Nations study has found. The […]
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Sea Shepherd Blasts Japan's Plan to Slaughter 4,000 Minke Whales
Environmental activist group warned Japan against resuming “research” whaling in the Antarctic in defiance of an international court of justice ruling that it cease the practice and called on the Australian government to intervene. After a decade of activism by Sea Shepherd and other groups, Japan was forced to abandon its 2014-15 Southern Ocean hunt […]
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"Liberté Is Not Just A Word": Klein, Corbyn Call for Mass Protest at COP21
In Paris on Monday, a panel of activists, including author Naomi Klein and UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, spoke to a packed crowd on the role of the global labor sector in the climate justice movement and called for mass civil disobedience to break French President François Hollande’s ban on demonstrations during the COP21 […]
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Gitmo Survivor Calls for Amnesty So Officials May Confess Their War Crimes
Despite being held for 14 years without charge at Guantanamo Bay; despite the torture, beatings, and psychological trauma he says he endured there; and despite signs that British intelligence agents knew of the abuse, 48-year-old Shaker Aamer says top UK officials should be granted legal immunity if it will encourage them to tell the truth […]
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Despite Soaring Support for Abortion Rights, Anti-Choice Crusade Continues
Public support for legal abortion in the United States is at its highest point in two years, with nearly six out of ten people backing the reproductive right, according to a new poll (pdf) conducted in the wake of last month’s mass shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic that killed three people. The Associated […]
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If Top General Gets His Way, America's "Longest War" Will Become Even Longer
If the highest ranking U.S. and NATO military commander in Afghanistan gets his way, America’s longest official war could become even more protracted. Army General John Campbell said in a USA Today article published on Tuesday that he wants to keep the 9,800 American troops currently in Afghanistan there for as long as possible—and is […]
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