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Thousands Of Veterans Sign Up To Join Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

With 2,100 veterans signed up to make a stand, it appears police will be forced to reconcile their aggressive behavior with the nonviolent show of veterans, who intend to march toward police on site.

Carey Wedler
By Carey Wedler
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline hold a ceremony at the main protest camp Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Last week, the newly formed group “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” called on veterans to nonviolently stand up to militarized law enforcement at the site of the Veterans Stand for Standing Rock protests. Since its initial call to action, the veterans’ movement has grown exponentially. Last week, the Facebook event, which was launched by Army

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In Aleppo, US and Saudi-Backed Rebels Targeted ‘Every Syrian’

‘We were living in security and peace. These areas are being targeted, they want to force us to leave. Every Syrian is being targeted,’ one Syrian religious leader told a delegation of reporters who visited Aleppo earlier this month.

Eva Bartlett
By Eva Bartlett
On Oct. 20 and again on Nov. 4, the Syrian government and Russia opened eight humanitarian corridors established for civilians and militants who wished to flee terrorist-held areas of eastern Aleppo, including militants who wished to surrender their weapons under amnesty. However, no one left on Nov. 4. Many residents within eastern Aleppo have said they are being held hostage and used as human shields by terrorists who shoot upon people attempting to leave through the humanitarian corridors. [Photo by Eva Bartlett, Nov. 4, 2016]

ALEPPO, Syria -- In early November, Fares Shehabi, a member of the Syrian parliament from Aleppo, organized a trip to Aleppo for 13 Western journalists, including myself, with security provided by forces in the Syrian Arab Army. While I had traveled to Aleppo independently as recently as July and August, for many others in the delegation, it was

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Fidel Castro: Charismatic Revolutionary Leader Who Defied The Odds

Castro was regarded, love him or hate him, as a superb fighter, athlete, strategist and orator.

Peter Mayo
By Peter Mayo
Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during a ceremony granting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, not seen, UNESCO's 2005 Jose Marti International Prize at the Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb 3,2006. Marti,who died in 1895 during Cuba's war of independence with Spain, has been glorified in Cuba as the ultimate anti-imperialist, a label both Chavez and Castro have embraced for themselves in their struggles with the United States. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (90), who passed away on last week, was the son of a Spanish immigrant from Galicia, Spain.  A significant world personality in the second half of the 20th century, Castro was regarded, love him or hate him, as a superb fighter, athlete, strategist and orator (some of his speeches lasted for hours).  He is widely regarded

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Thousand Flock To Havana To Honor Fidel Castro

Cubans will pay final respects on Monday and Tuesday to the late president and revolutionary, known simply as “El Comandante” or “El Jefe” on the island.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
A student stands at attention holding images of Fidel Castro at the university where Castro studied law as a young man, during a vigil in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of U.S. presidents during his half century rule, died Friday at age 90. (AP Photo/ Dario Lopez-Mills)

Thousands of Cubans are flocking to Havana’s Revolution Square Monday to pay final respects to revolutionary leader and former President Fidel Castro, who passed away Friday night at the age of 90. A long line of supporters snaked through the vast square as Cubans walked by a memorial to the former leader. Some mourners were in tears, others

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Neonicotinoids: Landmark European Court Verdict Could Change Bee Deaths Debate

The ruling means neonicotinoid studies submitted by chemical companies to European regulators will now be open to scrutiny.

Joe Sandler Clarke
By Joe Sandler Clarke
A honey bee at a hive entrance fanning, colony collapse disorder is causing alarm over the security of the world's food supply.

Safety tests submitted to European regulators by chemical companies will have to be made public, following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that could have a major impact on the debate around the decline of bee populations across the world. The verdict means studies submitted by the chemical industry to national

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Bernie Sanders Announces Anti-Outsourcing Bill

‘We need to send a very loud and very clear message to corporate America: the era of outsourcing is over’

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has introduced legislation to ensure that a key campaign promise of President-elect Donald Trump comes to pass—keeping American jobs in America. In a statement issued Saturday, the former Democratic presidential candidate took a stand against the air conditioner manufacturer United Technologies (UTX), which is

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