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3 Lessons from Standing Rock and What’s Next

Right now, water protectors are being evacuated from the main camp at Standing Rock. The state of North Dakota issued an emergency evacuation last week for the main camp, formerly known as

February 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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For Automation to Benefit Society, It Must Serve Humans, Not Replace Them

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We face the prospect of an economy with little need for humans. Advances in artificial intelligence call us to revisit basic questions about work, love, and human purpose.

February 22, 2017
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Category: Politics

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In Sharp Contrast with Flynn, Trump Appoints Establishment Figure to NSC

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Win Without War Coalition's Stephen Miles says H.R. McMaster's appointment is a real break with the recklessness of Michael Flynn, but the truth is that Trump is running a National Security Council politicized

February 22, 2017
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Category: Politics

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Whistleblower Teacher Says Defunded Public Schools Vulnerable to Mass Privatization

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In TRNN's ongoing investigation into Baltimore schools, a teacher says the long-term trend of over-testing and starving public schools of funds has made them an easy target for controversial education secretary Betsy DeVos

February 22, 2017
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Category: Politics

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Whistleblowers

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Trump's Job Promises are Fiction - Free Trade is Fiction, Too

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Economist Heiner Flassbeck tells Paul Jay that neither a high tariff wall or neo-liberal free-trade will provide jobs and higher wages - but there are policies that will.