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  • German Brewers Declare "Don't Frack with Our Beer!"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>German brewers are warning officials that the country&#39;s highly prized beer industry may be in jeopardy if the practice of fracking becomes widespread.</p>

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  • Designed to Deceive: The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

    Syndicated from Intercontinental Cry on Fri, 2013-05-24

    Like any other global public relations spectacle, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Twelfth Session in New York this week is mostly a combination of feel good photo ops and brotherly love bromides designed to deceive. While some of the...

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  • Call for pitches: Submit to The Media Co-op & Dominion

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2013-05-24

    Social justice takes no summer vacation. As long as there are un- and under-reported stories, as long as the mainstream media isn't getting it right—we need your pitches. Our contributors have been working hard to cover important issues from re-imagining what mental health advocacy looks like, to the garment industry in Haiti, and we want your ideas to continue our reporting.

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  • Fishable Waters

    Syndicated from Intercontinental Cry on Fri, 2013-05-24

    In the Spring 2013 American Indian Law Journal, Catherine A. O&#8217;Neill examines what it means to indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest to have fishable waters. In her discussion of the fish and fishing peoples of Washington State, O&#8217;Neill...

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  • Evacuation Ordered as Melting Ice Cracks Beneath Arctic Research Station

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>A Russian Arctic research station <a href="http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/russia-evacuates-drifting-arctic-research-station-145226993.html" target="_blank">has been forced to evacuate</a> following the discovery that the ice was melting beneath it.</p>

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  • Arctic Ice Melting Too Fast to Measure: Russian Researchers Find the Hard Way

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Ice melting at a dangerous pace <a href="http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/russia-evacuates-drifting-arctic-research-station-145226993.html" target="_blank">has forced</a> a Russian research team in the Arctic to pack up shop early&mdash;and leave in a hurry.</p>

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  • WikiLeaks Leaks Transcript of "Anti-WikiLeaks Documentary"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p><a href="http://wikileaks.org">WikiLeaks</a> leaked an <a href="http://wikileaks.org/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html">annotated transcript</a> of the documentary &quot;We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,&quot; on Thursday, the eve of its opening, in an effort to &quot;reveal errors and sleight of hand by the director Alex Gibney,&quot; the group <a href="http://wiki

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  • WikiLeaks Leaks Transcript of "Anti-WikiLeaks Documentary"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p><a href="http://wikileaks.org">WikiLeaks</a> leaked an <a href="http://wikileaks.org/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html">annotated transcript</a> of the documentary &quot;We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,&quot; on Thursday, the eve of its opening, in an effort to &quot;reveal errors and sleight of hand by the director Alex Gibney,&quot; the group <a href="http://wiki

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  • Groups Slam Environmental Defense Fund for Fracking "Greenwash"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Environmental groups and activists slammed the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) this week for partnering with a coalition of Big Energy companies and pro-fracking groups, saying there is &quot;nothing sustainable about shale oil or shale gas.&quot;</p>

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  • Groups Slam Environmental Defense Fund for Fracking "Greenwash"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Environmental groups and activists slammed the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) this week for partnering with a coalition of Big Energy companies and pro-fracking groups, saying there is &quot;nothing sustainable about shale oil or shale gas.&quot;</p>

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  • Radioactive Cesium Recorded at 10 Spots in Pacific Ocean After Fukushima

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Radioactive cesium from the Fukushima plant was found at <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/23/national/cesium-levels-in-water-plankton-baffle-scientists/#.UZ-FGOtyRyg">10 points</a> in the Pacific Ocean, including a location as far as 1300 miles from the plant, less than a year after Fukushima nuclear disaster began, scientists revealed on Tuesday.</p>

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  • Radioactive Cesium Recorded at 10 Spots in Pacific Ocean

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Radioactive cesium from the Fukushima plant was found at <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/23/national/cesium-levels-in-water-plankton-baffle-scientists/#.UZ-FGOtyRyg">10 points</a> in the Pacific Ocean, including a location as far as 1300 miles from the plant, less than a year after Fukushima nuclear disaster began, scientists revealed on Tuesday.</p>

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  • Pakistan Not Soothed by Obama's "Reformed" Drone Program

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Pakistan officials criticized President Obama&#39;s speech on Thursday for not announcing an immediate moratorium on all drone strikes in the country, insisting that any drone attack on Pakistan&#39;s soil is illegal and constitutes an assault on Pakistan&#39;s sovereignty.</p>

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  • Pakistan Not Soothed by Obama's "Reformed" Drone Program

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Pakistan officials criticized President Obama&#39;s speech on Thursday for not announcing an immediate moratorium on all drone strikes in the country, insisting that any drone attack on Pakistan&#39;s soil is illegal and constitutes an assault on Pakistan&#39;s sovereignty.</p>

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  • Over a Million Signatures in Support for Sen. Warren's Student Loan Bill

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Senator Elizabeth Warren&#39;s (D-Mass.) call to lower student loan interest rates to the same &quot;discounted rates&quot; given to big banks has received an &quot;outpouring of support&quot; as organizations and institutions of higher education are lining up to endorse the measure.</p>

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