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Google will not pursue Project Maven because the backlash has been terrible for the company. Thousands of employees have signed a petition asking Google to cancel the contract and dozens of employees have resigned in protest.

The man who as a candidate railed against our “rigged system” is, as president, only too happy to do a little rigging himself.

Coal may be a dying industry but, as St. Louis poet Kerry James Evans shows, the living miners go on working for less and less.

"President Obama released a statement today unreservedly calling on the Federal Communications Commission to protect net neutrality by reclassifying broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. His statement comes on the heels of an unprecedented public outcry in favor of real net neutrality, including a record-breaking four million comments on the issue to the FCC." ACLU Statement

"Rasmea came under attack by the U.S. government because she is Palestinian and because for decades she has organized for Palestinian liberation and self-determination, the Right of Return, and an end to U.S. funding of Israeli occupation,"