We have been taught that Slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation and that sparked the civil war, etc. First of all, the whole idea of the movement to end slavery being a human issue is no closer to the truth than it actually ending at all. Let's be clear, the problem that many white people had with slavery was much more an economic issue that was created by the assistance…

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The increasing amount of personal information that can be gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study.

Such programs can discern undisclosed private information such as Facebook users’ sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by the University of Cambridge academics.

In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the…

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For an institution devoted to eternal light, the Vatican has shown itself to be a master of smokescreens since Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation announcement.

On Thursday, the Vatican spokesman acknowledged that Benedict hit his head and bled profusely while visiting Mexico in July. Two days earlier the same man acknowledged that Benedict has had a pacemaker for years, and underwent a secret operation to replace its battery three months…

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True mysticism has been shattered like a vanity mirror scattered across time. The world's religions have snuffed out the light of spirituality that once guided the soul to the path of it's true nature. The existential has become a blind circus of mediocrity and the pretentiousness of fools.

 

Until you have seen the crystal clear, light blue waters of the south-east pacific ocean, how can you ever expect to know or describe something you have…

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Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency.

By Raffi Khatchadourian

The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the

city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence

sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall

Australian…

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Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.



By Glenn Greenwald

November 04, 2009 "Salon" -- It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with… Continue

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A US Air Force linguist joins a host of doctors in demanding a new probe into the mysterious death of a British scientist and weapons expert who opposed the Iraq war.



The controversy surrounding Dr. David Kelly's death was first rekindled following a Daily Express report in June that revealed the expert was in the middle of writing a book containing damaging government secrets on the Iraq war as well as biological warfare in apartheid South… Continue