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Reasons Why You Don’T Have to Come Back Home for Christmas

Seo Tabby.L · Though I do not deny that many people cannot wait for Christmas to go home with their family, I will explain four reasons why you are absolutely not wrong if you do not want to get back...

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

Abby Brockman · If you’re out there trying to change your neighborhood, community, city, country, or the world then this is for you. In moments when everything seems hopeless, read this to get your hope...

Censoring American War Crimes

Abby Zimet · After years of hating the iconic photo, Kim Phuc came to embrace it as a powerful tool to teach peace.

No One Leaves Home Unless Home Is the Mouth of a Shark

Abby Zimet · A broken Abdullah Kurdi buried his two toddlers and his wife in their hometown of Kobani, Syria even as thousands of his fellow refugees continued on their harrowing quest for safety -

Occupation, Schmoccupation: And Propaganda Shall Cover For Everything (Except the Ugly Truth)

Abby Zimet · As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank...

"Oh My God, They Use You As Target Practice." Literally.

Abby Zimet · In your weekly, admittedly rhetorical WTF-is-wrong-with-this-country turn, it seems cops in South Florida have been using real photos of real black men - bullet-riddled, obviously, when...

Making/Selling Christmas: Where Your Baubles, Tinsel, Santa Hats and LED Reindeer Come From

Abby Zimet · Just so you know: Those trinkets of Christmas proclaimed to bring joy to the world - wreaths, lights, stockings, mistletoe, shiny stars and snowflakes and other glittering marvels of...

Holocaust Survivors On Gaza: Genocide Begins With the Silence of the World

Abby Zimet · History turns: Even as Israel's onslaught in Gaza continues - in the latest insanity, obliterating an apartment building housing 44 families to punish one alleged combatant - over 300...

'Human Shield' Propaganda Used to Justify State-Sponsored Massacres for Decades

Abby and Robbie Martin · It’s been three weeks since Israel launched its bombing campaign and subsequent invasion of the Gaza strip. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, over 1,500 Palestinians have...

Leveling the Playing Field for Worker Cooperatives

Abby Scher · A quiet revolution is rumbling through New York's municipal offices as they retool to support the creation of worker cooperatives as a way to fight poverty.

Just Eat It: Big Money Spends Millions to Convince Washington It's None of Our Business What We Put In Our Mouths

Abby Zimet · 9 November 2013: A disheartening but predictable loss for GMO labelling in Washington, where Monsanto, DuPont and other big corporate interests jumped in and spent millions, sometimes...

Obama Gives Bush "Absolute Immunity" For Everything

Abby Zimet · Days before Bradley - now Chelsea - Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping expose U.S. war crimes in Iraq, the Obama Department of Justice filed a

Simply Despotic: UK Detains Greenwald Partner

Abby Zimet · In an act of blatant escalation against press freedom, UK officia

30 Years, One Earth: The Planet As Digital Flip Book

Abby Zimet · Astonishing timelapse pictures of a growing, changing, withering, clearly finite planet have been unveiled from Landsat, a satellite project launched in 1972 by NASA, Google, the U.S...

Hey Idiots: Taking On the "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls" Over Al Jazeera

Abby Zimet · With Al Jazeera America launching in a couple of weeks, Current TV's John Fugelsang decides to address the

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