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How Fake News and Western Propaganda About Russian Interference in Catalonia Coerced Ecuador to Silence Julian Assange

April 24, 2018 | Featured, World | 0 Comments

JULIAN ASSANGE HAS BEEN barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks.

Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots

April 24, 2018 | Featured, Science & Technology | 0 Comments

Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled …

How IBM Is Quietly Pushing Out Aging Workers

April 24, 2018 | Business, Featured | 0 Comments

Vox-ProPublica collaboration explores how IBM sidestepped age discrimination laws

How Fake News and Western Propaganda About Russian Interference in Catalonia Coerced Ecuador to Silence Julian Assange

Apr 24, 2018 | Featured, World

JULIAN ASSANGE HAS BEEN barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks.

Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots

Apr 24, 2018 | Featured, Science & Technology

Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled …

How IBM Is Quietly Pushing Out Aging Workers

Apr 24, 2018 | Business, Featured

Vox-ProPublica collaboration explores how IBM sidestepped age discrimination laws

America’s nuclear headache: old plutonium with nowhere to go

Apr 23, 2018 | Featured, U.S.

In a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industry. Contract workers at …

Canary in the Coal Pond

Apr 23, 2018 | Environment, Featured, U.S.

New reports provide an unprecedented look at contaminants leaking from coal ash ponds and landfills. But the chasm between information and environmental protection may deepen …

BILL GATES BACKS A $1 BILLION PLAN TO COVER EARTH IN ‘BIG BROTHER’ SATELLITES

Apr 23, 2018 | Featured, Science & Technology, Top Stories

500-strong network of spacecraft will monitor Earth with and livestream video

FINRA’S BLACK HOLE: In 30 Years, Only 17 Women Won Sexual Harassment Claims Before Wall Street’s Oversight Body

Apr 22, 2018 | Business, Featured, U.S.

FOR VICTIMS OF sexual harassment on Wall Street, the case of Kathleen Mary O’Brien was a bad omen.

THE WAR ON POT MARCHES ON: IN NEARLY HALF THE COUNTRY, MARIJUANA ARRESTS HAVE GONE UP SINCE 2014

Apr 22, 2018 | Featured, U.S.

SUPPORT FOR LEGALIZING marijuana is surging among the public, as the position moves closer to the mainstream of the Democratic Party.

HUGE DRUG (PHARMA) MONEY CHANGES HANDS IN HIGH-LEVEL FINANCIAL DEALS

Apr 21, 2018 | Business, Featured

Follow the astonishing money trails

Study: Nearly 1 in 4 children has at least one immigrant parent

Apr 21, 2018 | Featured, U.S.

One in 4 children living in the U.S. in 2016 had at least one parent who was born outside the U.S., according to a study …

AMAZON GETS HUGE SUBSIDIES TO PROVIDE GOOD JOBS — BUT IT’S A TOP EMPLOYER OF SNAP RECIPIENTS IN AT LEAST FIVE STATES

Apr 20, 2018 | Business, Featured, U.S.

LATER THIS YEAR, Amazon will begin accepting grocery orders from customers using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the federal anti-poverty program formerly known as food …