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Bryan Weinman is pictured with two of his "Stoner Bowl" T-shirts in southeast Denver on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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The Pacific Pivot: Why America’s Strategic Rebalance Is Really Just Retreat

The “strategic re-balancing” the Obama administration has been promoting as a mid-course correction to its foreign policy remains strong on rhetoric and remarkably weak on content.

John Feffer
بواسطة John Feffer

In a future update of The Devil's Dictionary, the famed Ambrose Bierce dissection of the linguistic hypocrisies of modern life, a single word will accompany the entry for "Pacific pivot": retreat. It might seem a strange way to characterize the Obama administration's energetic attempt to reorient its foreign and military policy toward Asia.

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Privacy Advocates Ready To Sue Oakland Over “Spy” Center

The city claims the Domain Awareness Center is meant to prevent crime, but privacy advocates doubt that.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke
Information about "DAC" technology on Domain Awareness Center (Courtesy of Oakland Wiki)

Since it was first proposed last summer, residents in Oakland, Calif., have protested the construction of a citywide surveillance system known as the Domain Awareness Center, or DAC, reasoning that the center has the potential to violate their privacy and civil rights. Scheduled to go live in July 2014, and funded almost exclusively by a $10.9

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $2 Trillion, Despite Global Condemnation

Despite a growing consensus that support for the oil and gas industry is unfair, inefficient and globally dangerous, there’s no actual implementation of plans to change it.

Carey L. Biron
بواسطة Carey L. Biron
Oil pumps work Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in the Persian Gulf desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

WASHINGTON - Global tax breaks, incentives, and various other consumption and production subsidies for the fossil fuel industry are likely topping $2 trillion each year, amounting to 2.5 percent of total gross domestic product for 2012.  After a dip in the immediate aftermath of the global financial recession, these figures have risen in recent

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Obama Threatens To Veto New Sanctions Against Iran

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, Iranians shop in a supermarket in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) WASHINGTON (AP) — Any new economic sanctions that Congress tries to impose against Iran during international negotiations to limit the Islamic republic’s nuclear program will be vetoed, President Barack Obama warned lawmakers on Tuesday, even […]

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, Iranians shop in a supermarket in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Any new economic sanctions that Congress tries to impose against Iran during international negotiations to limit the Islamic republic's nuclear program will be vetoed, President Barack Obama warned lawmakers on Tuesday, even as he acknowledged the ongoing talks are difficult and may not succeed. It was the sharpest part of a

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Ukraine Lawmakers Consider Protester Amnesty

A man passes by some graffiti in the center of Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Writing on the wall reads ‘Revolution’. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament discussed an amnesty Wednesday for those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country — but some of the possible conditions attached to […]

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's parliament discussed an amnesty Wednesday for those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country — but some of the possible conditions attached to it would be unacceptable to the opposition. The amnesty bill is part of a series of concessions from embattled President Viktor Yanukovych, after a

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Indonesia’s Resort Island Of Bali Has Refused To Host The World’s Largest Tobacco Trade Fair

An Indonesian elderly man smokes cigarette in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Cigarette advertising in Indonesia is so offensively prevalent no one blinks an eye when Philip Morris sponsors a refugee camp, let alone a children’s concert. This is a country where a huge billboard in Jakarta promoting the cigarette brand […]

Peter Gelling
بواسطة Peter Gelling
An Indonesian elderly man smokes cigarette in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Cigarette advertising in Indonesia is so offensively prevalent no one blinks an eye when Philip Morris sponsors a refugee camp, let alone a children's concert. This is a country where a huge billboard in Jakarta promoting the cigarette brand LA Lights reads, in really big letters, "Don't Quit." Even worse — if it can be worse — the "Do" and the

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