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Courts Must Allow Online Platforms to Defend Their Users' Free Speech Rights, EFF Tells Court

Online platforms must be allowed to assert their anonymous users’ First Amendment rights in court, EFF argued in a brief filed Monday in a California appellate court.

May 2, 2017
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Category: Media

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6 Ways to Put Public Interest Ahead of Big Pharma Profits

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Increase access to generics, end “evergreening” drug patents, and other ways to put people before profits.

May 2, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Inequality Study in Countries of the World Fails to Show Its Continuing Rise

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The Guardian newspaper's Global Inequality Project gives us a snapshot of current inequality, but fails to show how inequality is growing with the intensification of capitalism says Prof. Leo Panitch.

May 1, 2017
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Category: Justice

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Wilkerson: Trump's Cuts to Foreign Aid Threaten Global Health, Benefit War & Disaster Profiteers

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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says the Trump's administration drastic cuts to foreign assistance endanger global health, to the benefit of national security state profiteers.

May 1, 2017
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Spicer Confirms White House Actively Planning Attack on Press Freedoms

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Effort to rewrite libel laws, says press secretary, 'is being looked into substantively and logistically'

May 2, 2017
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New Data Paints Dire Picture of Democracy after 2016 Elections

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Last week, we released our Dubious Democracy 2016 dataset on U.S. House elections. The story that the 2016 election data tells is damning. Like past elections, the 2016 U.S. House elections proved to be incredibly uncompetitive. As demonstrated in