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Archives for February 2014

The Road To Moscow Goes Through Kiev: A Coup d’Etat That Threatens Russia

“Utter hypocrisy is at work. When similar protests and riots broke out in Britain and France, the positions taken and the tones used by the above actors was very different.”

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

The takeover of power in Kiev by the mainstream opposition is a coup that has been executed by force, which overlooks the opinions of at least half of the Ukrainian population. Yet, you would not know this from listening to such media outlets and networks as CNN or Fox News or reading the headlines being produced by Reuters and the state-owned

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Chicago Teachers Vote ‘Yes’ To Teaching But ‘No’ To Useless Testing

Putting careers on the line, Chicago elementary teachers vote ‘Yes’ to teaching but ‘No’ to useless testing

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

Elementary school teachers in Chicago have taken what progressive education advocates are calling a "brave" and "bold" stand against the destructive role of high-stakes testing in public schools by voting unanimously to boycott upcoming, state-mandated tests. About 40 teachers at Maria Saucedo Elementary Scholastic Academy, located in the Little

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Geoengineering: Path Towards Further Climate Chaos

New study reveals that widely discussed climate engineering strategies could bring little benefit, ‘potentially severe side effects’

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
ISS

Geoengineering—deliberate large-scale human manipulation of the climate as a way to mitigate soaring CO2 emissions—is a technological path towards further climate chaos with potentially disastrous consequences, a new study warns. Researchers from Germany's Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel published the findings, which echo other studies'

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Texas Gay Marriage Ban Latest To Be Struck Down

“This is an issue on which there are good, well-meaning people on both sides,” Abbott said in a statement. “The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled over and over again that States have the authority to define and regulate marriage.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
GAY MARRIAGE STATES

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge declared a same-sex marriage ban in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional on Wednesday, but will allow the nation's second-most populous state to enforce the law pending an appeal that will likely go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Orlando Garcia issued the preliminary injunction after two gay couples

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Syria Set To Surpass Refugee Record

UN officials give grave warning of inescapable ‘trauma and psychological wounds’

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Syrian refugee women

Syrians are set to become the world's largest refugee population, a United Nations official has warned. In his remarks on the years-long crisis to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres stated that "as the world continues to watch Syria disintegrate in bloodshed," the country's refugee population is

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A Complete US Withdrawal From Afghanistan May Be Coming

Obama orders Pentagon to draw up plans for ‘zero option’… and that’s a good thing, say those opposed to endless occupation

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
Hamid Karzai

Despite repeated statements from the Obama administration that its preferred planned is for a large residual military force and operations footprint inside Afghanistan that extends well beyond 2014, the president formally ordered the Pentagon on Tuesday to draw up plans for a full and complete withdrawal of all U.S. forces by the end of the

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