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Civil Liberties Groups Launch Campaign To Protect Email Privacy

The campaign, “Vanishing Rights,” aims to raise awareness about a 1986 law that allows the government to read emails after six months.

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels

Laws protecting Americans’ privacy online have not been updated since 1986, years before the Internet was available to the public, meaning that police can view any email older than 180 days without a warrant. It’s become a major issue for civil liberties groups who say that laws need to be overhauled in order to protect online privacy and Fourth

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Huge Underground Water Reserves Found Under Drought-Ridden Kenya

A massive aquifer located under the Horn of Africa is changing the geopolitical conversation in the wider region.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

The Horn of Africa is dying. After two seasons of no rainfall, the region -- which includes Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Somalia and Uganda -- is finding itself victim of the worst drought in over 60 years. Over 11 million people in the region now find themselves in dire need of relief. The latest round of droughts follows the 2010-2011 droughts,

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Detroit’s Newest Gang: A ‘Mower Gang’ That Restores Closed Parks

Locals have decided to do something about the blighted city’s dozens of overgrown, unused parks.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

Three years ago, after the city of Detroit announced it would be closing 75 parks in the city, the city “closed” the parks by removing all of the trash barrels away from the parks and ceased mowing the grass. Though Michigan resident Tom Nardone was busy working and taking care of his three small children, he said he decided to give back to the

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Downturn Despair: Suicides Spike In Age Of Austerity

Report by the British Medical Journal links increase in suicides with 2008 economic crash.

Andrea Germanos
بواسطة Andrea Germanos
Occupy protesters marched down the streets in Chicago toward Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home. Spending cuts to healthcare services, including mental health care, fueled the demonstration Saturday, May 19, 2012. (Photo Norbert Schiller/Mint Press)

The global economic crisis in 2008 has been linked to a rise in suicides in Europe and the U.S., among other countries, according to a new study. There were nearly 5,000 more suicides than expected in the year after the global economic crisis, "one of the clearest signs of austerity's human cost.” (Photo: Grant Jones/cc/flickr)In an analysis of

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Philippines: 100-plus Dead In Quixotic Anti-Colonialism Martyr Mission

Muslim rebels fight boldly to create the ‘Bangsamoro Republik’ as a refuge from ‘America-installed Philippine colonialism.’

Global Post
بواسطة Global Post

  By GlobalPost's Patrick Winn BANGKOK, Thailand — The ragtag militants who stormed one of the Philippines’ major cities to carve out a new nation — an imagined state they call “Bangsamoro Republik” — must have known they were on a suicide mission. Following their initial Sept. 9 assault, armed rebels from the Moro National Liberation

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Extremist Catholic Website Needs To Examine Its Own Tradition

A fringe organization’s insistence that Catholic women shouldn’t attend college runs not only against the realities of the modern world, but the Catholic tradition itself.

Carissa Wyant
بواسطة Carissa Wyant

A recent article entitled “6 Reasons (+2) to NOT Send Your Daughter to College,” by Raylan Alleman of an organization called Fix the Family, has generated quite a bit of discussion since it was posted on the group’s website last week. It’s filed under a “Feminist Lies” series the group is promoting. “Probably the most controversial and rejected

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