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Social Issues

American Pride, My Way

Americans are proud, we need to bring that feeling back. The younger generations have not experienced it yet.

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Human Rights

The American Dream, Myth, or Fallacy

The American dream is all about a person pursuing individual freedoms, independence, and the personal vision of the proverbial pot of gold. Read the American Dream Debate Here.

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Human Rights

Death Row: Waiting to be Killed

Have you ever really imagined what it would be like? You or a loved one given that date and watching it draw near. Knowing that you will be killed.

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Consumer Advocacy and Information

Nasty Salespeople And Why We Still Buy From Them

A salesperson may be rude or snooty or even offensive but there’s something that drives people to still buy products from them. Why is that?

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Other Social Issues

How to Get Rid of House Guest?

The ways to avoid getting stuck with a long term and unwanted house guest are easy and effective once you develop the habits of the house guest free.

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Human Rights

One For Ten: Innocent People Freed from Death Row

Documentary film-makers are set to launch an anti-death penalty campaign. They will travel across the USA interviewing those exonerated of all crimes.

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Poverty

Free and Cheap Stuff for the Economically Impaired

If you've lost a job or have other issues that have contributed to a difficult situation, you might find a way here to make things a little better.

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Social Issues

What Not To Do In An Earthquake – Grab Your Cell Phone

When a quake hits, do you know what to do - and what not to do? Resist making non-emergency phone alls.

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Activism

Occupy Wall Street Will Write Off Your Debt

The Rolling Jubilee initiative buys up bad debts from banks. Instead of hounding poverty-stricken individuals, the debt is automatically forgiven. End of story.

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Activism

Westboro Baptist Church Versus Freedom of Speech

How do we cope when freedom of speech allows something really hateful? With their God Hates Fags funeral picketing, WBC forces a debate on the issue.

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Other Social Issues

The Korowai Cannibals

One of the last known cultures to practice cannibalism, the Korowai tribe is native to New Guinea and ritualistically partake in eating human flesh.

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Consumer Advocacy and Information

How to Avoid Enriching Bad Corporate Citizens

You want to know if the shirt you are planning on buying was made in an unsafe sweatshop; there’s an app for that called Buycott.

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Unemployment

The Criminalization of Britain's Jobless

The UK's Job Centres are not benign places given over to the efficient matching of people with jobs. They apply pressure which would make criminals of us all.

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Consumer Advocacy and Information

Grocery Product Placement May Be Costing You Money

Slotting Fees are a hidden cost that may boost what you pay to fill up your market basket

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Human Rights

Applications of the Death Penalty: Lethal Injection

Examining the murky history and gruesome use of death by needle as a method of execution. Not an article for the faint-hearted.

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Other Social Issues

Beware of Apple Picking - iPhone Theft

Protect yourself from “apple picking” iPhone theft as thieves steal Apple phones right out of users hands selling them for as much as $300.00. If you have an Apple iPhone read this

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Activism

Kony 2012: In Defence of Justin Bieber and AnonyOps

Kony 2012 politicized the mainstream seemingly overnight. Not everyone is happy about that. Watch the slap-downs begin.

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Civil Rights

Willowbrook: A Human Service Atrocity

Willowbrook was a New York State Institution that officially opened in October of 1947. It closed it's doors almost 40 years too late in 1987.

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