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Pope Francis Calls For Radical Mining Reforms As Tar Sands Spill
In this week's Fracked Earth News: The Pope continues demanding that extractive industries make major changes in how they treat the earth and its people. → Read More
Barrett Brown, Freedom Of The Press, And The Failed Shield Law
Despite attempts to show that the administration values "press freedom," the Barrett Brown case proves journalism is a dangerous job under President Obama. → Read More
What Is Revolutionary Media? 3 Key Ideas
In the new media landscape, how can journalists create media that's passionate but reliable, diverse, and sustainable while earning enough to live? → Read More
Why We Must Not Arm Even 1 More Syrian Rebel
Over and over again, the United States arms new "moderate" rebel groups in Syria after the previous group inevitably defects to al-Qaida or ISIS. → Read More
Only A Green Economy Can Save The Earth, Say Scientists & Pope Francis
This week's top environmental headlines in Fracked Earth News. From the Pope in Bolivia to climate scientists in Paris, many now agree capitalism must go. → Read More
Rami Gudovitch: Israeli Activist That Protects Sudanese Refugees Deported By Israel
Rami Gudovitch, through the Come True Project, assists young refugees of South Sudan that struggle to survive in Uganda after being deported from Israel. → Read More
Is ALEC Behind State Lawsuits Against EPA & The Clean Water Act?
Is the American Legislative Exchange Council behind new lawsuits by U.S. states challenging the EPA's Clean Water Act's ability to protect U.S. waterways? → Read More
Logic’s “30 Free” Heals The People, Starts A Revolution (REVIEW)
Independent, UK-based hip hop artist Logic dropped his new album "30 Free," a revolutionary follow-up to "Spectator" with even more amazing, healing beats. → Read More
London Bombings Anniversary: Ten Years On From 7/7
10 years after the London bombings that killed 52 victims, the UK is now a place with less freedom and more oppression, in the name of preventing terrorism. → Read More
Fracked Earth News: Every Day Is Earth Day
As another Earth Day passes by with the climate endangered, Kate Lanier collects energy and sustainabilit news from around the world. → Read More
Great Women In Muslim History: Türkan Hatun of Iran
Dr. Milena Rampoldi explains how the allegiance of a Muslim state to Genghis Khan led to the rise of a powerful ruler in what would become modern Iran. → Read More
State Department Keystone XL Contractor ERM Bribed Chinese Agency To Permit Project
One of the corporations tasked with evaluating the environmental impact of the Keystone XL pipeline has a shady history in China, reveals Steve Horn. → Read More
Palestinians Need Less Negotiations, Not More
Recent attempts to pass a UN resolution for Palestinian statehood are taking the wrong approach to Palestinian freedom, explains Matt Peppe. → Read More
Benign Intent: Tools of Corporate Media Propaganda
Simon Wood argues that the mainstream media in the United States is far from neutral, but instead serves its corporate owners and a corrupt government. → Read More
VIDEO: Every Town Has A Mike Brown
With the national spotlight focused on police violence over the last few months, it's clear that every town has a Michael Brown. As more tragic stories unfold, a pattern seems to emerge of police demonizing their victims. Whether it’s Darren Wilson literally saying Mike Brown “looked like a Demon” or claiming that the victim reached for a gun, the story is eerily similar across the country.… → Read More
Goodbye To Flying Rivers: The Amazon Rainforest Is Drying Up
Frequently called “the Earth’s lungs,” the Amazon rainforest absorbs large amounts of the planet’s carbon dioxide and, in turn, sends large amounts of oxygen back into the atmosphere. This amazing feat is due to the trees, upwards of 390 billion of them from some 16,000 species. The trees are essential to making the rainforest a “gigantic hydrological pump that brings humidity of the Atlantic… → Read More
Great Women In Muslim History: Shejer üd-Dür, The Sultan Of Egypt
King Louis IX on a ship departing from Aigues-Mortes, for the Seventh Crusade. Shejer üd-Dür and her forces imprisoned Louis IX and decimated his army. (Wi, Aktay, Ayyub, Baghdad, Bahrî, Caliphate, Crusades, Damascus, Damietta, democracy, Egypt, El-Kâmil, Emperor Friedrich II, Female Sovereigns in Islamic States, France, Harezmis, Harran, Hisn-Keyfa, history, ihtiyariyye, Islam, İzzüddîn Aybek,… → Read More
4 Cases Of Unpunished Police Brutality With Video Evidence
In every civilization there is a set of laws that govern behavior and a set of rules that make sure we live in an ordered society. So what happens when someone whose responsibility is to govern that law makes an error and falls through the cracks of a legal system designed to punish all with equal and fair justice? What happens when we don't see justice or justice is delayed? Even when there's… → Read More
Human Rights - MyMPN
“El-Misr,” the Arabic word for Egypt, refers to the emergence of Arab military colonies following the expansion of Islam, later developing into such fixtures as “al-Fustat,” modernly, Cairo. The expanse of desert, pockmarked by oases and with unrivalled riverine breadth, continues to be known locally, and proudly, as the Mother of the World. The birthplace of civilization on the banks of the… → Read More
Sweeping The Globe: #MillionMaskMarch Impossible To Ignore
Over 400 cities worldwide demonstrated what a REAL “Wave of Action” looks like, celebrating Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) by congregating in major city centres the world over to spread messages of awakening to their fellow citizens and commemorate the growth of the Anonymous movement. Becoming ever larger with each passing year, the Million Mask March (known as MMM) 2014 marks the first major… → Read More