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Bulgaria, Louvre Museum Mull Organizing Exhibit on Tsars, Christian Art of Medieval Bulgarian Empire

Bulgaria, Louvre Museum Mull Organizing Exhibit on Tsars, Christian Art of Medieval Bulgarian Empire

April 5, 2016

Bulgaria’s 2015 exhibition on Ancient Thrace in the Louvre Museum in Paris made headlines in French and...

Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture – Monism

Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture – Monism

April 5, 2016

Ascidiacea, plate 85 from Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904) / Creative Commons In addition to describing and...

Trump Reveals How He Would Force Mexico to Pay for Border Wall

Trump Reveals How He Would Force Mexico to Pay for Border Wall

April 5, 2016

Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Fort Worth on February 26, 2015. By Bob Woodward and...

When Covering Elections, Journalists Face a Debilitating Dilemma

When Covering Elections, Journalists Face a Debilitating Dilemma

April 5, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fields questions from reporters in Dover, New Hampshire. Brian Snyder/Reuters By Dr....

Why North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law is a Trojan Horse

Why North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law is a Trojan Horse

April 5, 2016

Protesters in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, following the recent passage of HB2. (Chris Seward / The News...

Career Suicide: 10 NYPD Officers Risk Jobs to Tell Truth About System (VIDEO)

Career Suicide: 10 NYPD Officers Risk Jobs to Tell Truth About System (VIDEO)

April 5, 2016

By Joe Clark / 04.04.2016 Ten NYPD officers sat down on camera with NBC New York to...

Bernie Sanders Predicted The Panama Papers In 2011 (VIDEO)

Bernie Sanders Predicted The Panama Papers In 2011 (VIDEO)

April 5, 2016

By Mike Sainato / 04.04.2016 The Panama Papers leak recently revealed how and to what extent some...

How Can We Ensure the Race for Clean Energy Doesn’t Leave the World’s Poorest Citizens Behind?

April 5, 2016

Illustration by Rachael Balsaitis By Mary Wilcox / 04.04.2016 Wind power is booming in Mexico. With more...

BREAKING: BP Settlement in Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – ‘Largest Environmental Penalty of All Time’

April 4, 2016

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill / Creative Commons For Immediate Release (DOJ) / 04.04.2016 Attorney General Loretta E....

Coffee Wars: South Korea’s Cafe Boom Nears Saturation Point

Coffee Wars: South Korea’s Cafe Boom Nears Saturation Point

April 4, 2016

Coffee and Tea at Droptop Cafe, Seoul / Creative Commons By Joyce Lee and Hooyeon Kim SEOUL...

Justice Department Launches Probe for Civil Rights Violations in Arizona Primary

Justice Department Launches Probe for Civil Rights Violations in Arizona Primary

April 4, 2016

CommonDreams.org / Creative Commons By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) / 04.04.2016 – The U.S. Department of Justice...

Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Conservative Challenge to ‘One Man, One Vote’

Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Conservative Challenge to ‘One Man, One Vote’

April 4, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON...

Prosperity Gospel’s Warping of #Blessed

Prosperity Gospel’s Warping of #Blessed

April 4, 2016

WHY SO MANY AMERICANS THINK THEY’RE #BLESSED Feeling blessed? Nick Lehr/The Conversation Dr. Joseph P. Laycock Associate...

Federal Report – Global Warming Making Us Sicker (REPORT LINK)

Federal Report – Global Warming Making Us Sicker (REPORT LINK)

April 4, 2016

In this March 5, 2004 file photo, a man walks along a path lined with elm trees...

Visiting the Via Appia Antica and Catacombs of San Sebastiano (VIDEO)

Visiting the Via Appia Antica and Catacombs of San Sebastiano (VIDEO)

April 4, 2016

Remains of the Via Appia in Rome, near Quarto Miglio Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By Mary Harrsch...

FIFTY Priests and Teachers Involved in Child Rape in ONE Diocese of Fewer than 100,000

FIFTY Priests and Teachers Involved in Child Rape in ONE Diocese of Fewer than 100,000

April 4, 2016

\ Bigstock By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.04.2016 Mary Kane recently reported in The Washington Post, following...

The Hidden Wealth of Nations – Discussion with Book on Author on Heels of Panama Papers

The Hidden Wealth of Nations – Discussion with Book on Author on Heels of Panama Papers

April 4, 2016

Illustration by Jack D. By Richard Eskow / 04.04.2016 If you’re interested in inequality, social justice and...

Trump: The Pseudo-President in Waiting

Trump: The Pseudo-President in Waiting

April 4, 2016

Reuters/Mario Anzuoni By Brian McNair / 03.27.2016 Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication Queensland University of Technology...

Justice Department Reviewing ‘Panama Papers’ for Possible Corruption

Justice Department Reviewing ‘Panama Papers’ for Possible Corruption

April 4, 2016

CommonDreams.org / Creative Commons WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing leaked documents (#PanamaPapers) from...

Bloggers Under Fire: The Fatal Consequences of Free Thinking in Bangladesh (VIDEO)

Bloggers Under Fire: The Fatal Consequences of Free Thinking in Bangladesh (VIDEO)

April 4, 2016

Some of the secular writers killed in recent years in Bangladesh. From top left clockwise: Faisal Arefin...

Bernie Sanders On Track to Take Wisconsin (POLLS)

Bernie Sanders On Track to Take Wisconsin (POLLS)

April 4, 2016

Photo by Phil Roeder / Creative Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.04.2016 Sen. Bernie Sanders is...

Abortion Limits Create Nightmare for Parents of Stillborn Baby

Abortion Limits Create Nightmare for Parents of Stillborn Baby

April 3, 2016

Photo by Tamir Kalifa By Alexa Ura / 04.03.2016 Twenty weeks. It’s a seemingly arbitrary measure that recently shattered the lives...

Crow Tribe Elder, Historian Joe Medicine Crow, Dead at 102

Crow Tribe Elder, Historian Joe Medicine Crow, Dead at 102

April 3, 2016

Receiving Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 / AP From AP writer Steven K. Paulson / 04.03.2016...

Taking the Temperature

Taking the Temperature

April 3, 2016

Illustration by Dave Murray Toronto-based Ecobee has morphed into a heavy hitter in the burgeoning home thermostat...

#OccupyCNN and #BernieBlackout Protesters Converge on Hollywood CNN Building

#OccupyCNN and #BernieBlackout Protesters Converge on Hollywood CNN Building

April 3, 2016

By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.03.2016 Supporters of Sen. Bernie Senators organized online to meet at Hollywood’s...

Louisiana ‘In God We Trust’ Sheriff Indicted for Conspiracy Against Rights in Beatings

Louisiana ‘In God We Trust’ Sheriff Indicted for Conspiracy Against Rights in Beatings

April 3, 2016

Louisiana KATC-3 News Screen Capture By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.03.2016 Louisiana Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis M....

It’s Official – Bernie Wins Nevada County Conventions, On to State Convention in June

It’s Official – Bernie Wins Nevada County Conventions, On to State Convention in June

April 3, 2016

AP Photo/Alan Diaz Sanders takes the most delegates at Nevada County Conventions. But who has won the...

Dillan’s Voice – Apple Shows How a Young Man with Autism Can Speak to the World (VIDEO)

Dillan’s Voice – Apple Shows How a Young Man with Autism Can Speak to the World (VIDEO)

April 3, 2016

Yes, he has autism Yes, he is different Yes, he is brilliant Yes, he CAN talk

#PanamaPapers Explodes on Social Media – Tax Havens for Elites Exposed by Mossack Fonseca Leak

#PanamaPapers Explodes on Social Media – Tax Havens for Elites Exposed by Mossack Fonseca Leak

April 3, 2016

Image BBC From Richard Bilton at the BBC / 04.03.2016 A huge leak of confidential documents has...

Ann Coulter Says Immigrants Make Germany ‘Fascist’ in Tweet for Responding to Hate and Demanding Equal Treatment

April 3, 2016

Ann Coulter speaking at the 2013 CPAC in Washington D.C. on March 16, 2013 / Photo Gage Skidmore...