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Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jun 13, 2020
Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group
Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group
SUQUAMISH TRIBE DESCENDANT JEANETTA RILEY, A 34-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FOUR, LAY FACEDOWN ON A SANDPOINT, IDAHO, STREET. One minute earlier, three police officers had arrived, summoned by staff at a nearby hospital. Her husband had sought...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jun 9, 2020
Activists Catalog Nearly 600 Videos of Police Violence Against Protesters
Activists Catalog Nearly 600 Videos of Police Violence Against Protesters
"This kind of documentation serves as a counter-narrative to repeated denials of responsibility from the police, who are routinely claiming protesters were the ones to grow violent first."
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 21, 2016
11 of the Most Sacred and Iconic Trees From Around the World
11 of the Most Sacred and Iconic Trees From Around the World
Originally published at Garden Buildings Direct.
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 9, 2016
PBS FRONTLINE's "Modern Meat" and "The Trouble With Chicken" (A Films for Action Double Feature)
PBS FRONTLINE's "Modern Meat" and "The Trouble With Chicken" (A Films For Action Double Feature)
How safe is it to eat meat in America? Two PBS Frontline Documentaries ask the hard questions about E. Coli, Salmonella, and other bacteria that are sending American families to the hospital, and in some cases to the grave. The latest...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Feb 4, 2015
Why Title II Reclassification for Net Neutrality Is the Biggest Deal Ever
Why Title II Reclassification for Net Neutrality Is the Biggest Deal Ever
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has confirmed that he will base new Net Neutrality rules on Title II of the Communications Act. He described those rules as "the strongest open Internet protectio
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jul 1, 2014
Raucous Crowd Stifled in Net Neutrality Debate at Latest FCC Event
Raucous Crowd Stifled in Net Neutrality Debate at Latest FCC Event
Albuquerque, NM -- Frustrating.  This is the best way to describe the first public FCC question and answer session since Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed his “Open Internet” rules in May.   It wasn’t just Wheeler’s dodging of...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on May 13, 2014
Grassroots Efforts to Save Net Neutrality May be Working
Grassroots Efforts to Save Net Neutrality May be Working
Concerned Internet users want to make sure that the FCC and Congress hear them when it comes to keeping the Internet open and free. Digital-rights advocacy group Free P
Matthew Toplikar added an article on May 8, 2014
Top Ten Bill Moyers Videos on the Web
Top Ten Bill Moyers Videos on the Web
Modern America has a strong generational divide.  Whether it’s cultural or political, there are a wide-range of topics that can be off limits when talking to “the grandparents.”  On the reverse side, it can be hard to listen to the...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Apr 30, 2014
The Internet Is About to Become Worse Than Television
The Internet Is About to Become Worse Than Television
Last week, an obscure but potentially internet-transforming document was leaked from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. It revealed that government regulators are considering rules that
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Apr 12, 2014
Koch brothers help Kansas lawmakers strip teachers of due process rights
Koch brothers help Kansas lawmakers strip teachers of due process rights
The Kansas legislature just passed legislation that strips teachers of  the right to due process, a move pushed by conservative lawmakers who were forced by a state Supreme Court ruling to provide more funding to poor school districts...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Apr 10, 2014
Peak Oil becomes an Issue Again after the IEA Revises its Predictions
Peak Oil becomes an Issue Again after the IEA Revises its Predictions
Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” -- the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin an irreversible decline -- was thoroughly discredited.  The explosive development of...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Mar 31, 2014
Hundreds Protest Albuquerque's Trigger-Happy Police Department
Hundreds Protest Albuquerque's Trigger-Happy Police Department
In the last three years, Albuquerque police department officers have shot and killed 23 people -- one of the highest per capita fatal police shooting rates in the country. One of the most recent was James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 31, 2014
How Talk Of Income Inequality is Scaring the Upper Class
How Talk Of Income Inequality is Scaring the Upper Class
NEW YORK — The co-founder of one the nation’s oldest venture capital firms fears a possible genocide against the wealthy. Residents of Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side say the progressive mayor didn’t plow their streets as a form of...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 31, 2014
Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014
There's a lot of talk of Karl Marx in the air these days – from Rush Limbaugh accusing Pope Francis of promoting "pure Marxism" to a Washington Times writer 
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 31, 2014
Cabot Oil & Gas Goes After 63 Year Old Anti-fracking Activist
Cabot Oil & Gas Goes After 63 Year Old Anti-fracking Activist
            Vera Scroggins, an outspoken opponent of fracking, has been legally barred from the new county hospital.  Also off-limits, unless Scroggins wants to risk fines and arrest, are the Chinese restaurant where she takes her...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 26, 2014
Films for Action's 6 Best Videos Featuring Howard Zinn Online
Films For Action's 6 Best Videos Featuring Howard Zinn Online
Four years ago today, historian, professor, activist, author, and playwright, Howard Zinn passed away at the age of 87.  For those of us who are familiar with his work, he has been a great source of inspiration.  Zinn's book, A People's...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Nov 5, 2013
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
Food scientists are shedding light on items loaded with toxins and chemicals–and simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain why they won’t eat these eight foods.
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Aug 29, 2013
Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas
Legendary Newspaper Fights to Stay Alive and Stop Conservative News Monopoly in Las Vegas
The story is, by now, familiar: A once-powerful newspaper is facing insolvency, and its owners, heirs to the empire-builder of yesteryear, are fighting among themselves, allowing petty concerns about money to split their family and...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Aug 27, 2013
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Aug 25, 2013
Unprecedented Cut in Colorado River Flow Ordered, Due to Drought
Unprecedented Cut in Colorado River Flow Ordered, Due to Drought
For the first time in history, the U.S. government has ordered that flow of Colorado River water from the 50-year-old Glen Canyon Dam be slashed, due to a water crisis brought about by the region's historic 14-year drought. On Friday...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jun 5, 2013
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
 
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Mar 13, 2012
Kony 2012 and Invisible Children are Funded by Antigay Creationist Groups
Kony 2012 and Invisible Children are Funded by Antigay Creationist Groups
We're still waiting on the new Kony 2012 video, supposedly slated to go live later today, that will answer all of our concerns about Invisible Children's finances and goals, but we have some idea of what we can expect: earnest...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Mar 5, 2012
Can Al Franken rebound after supporting PIPA?
Can Al Franken rebound after supporting PIPA?
by Mitchell Dahlhoff January 23, 2012 Minnesota's political image has been a bit tarnished as of late, what with Michele \"Crazy Eyes\" Bachmann and Tim \"Hockey Fight Blood Lust\" Pawlenty crashing and burning spectacularly in the...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Dec 29, 2011
FDA Says Chicken Meat Contains Small Amounts of Arsenic
FDA Says Chicken Meat Contains Small Amounts of Arsenic
After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that's fatal in high doses. But the...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Dec 17, 2011
Nearly Half of Americans Are Now Classified as Low Income or Below the Poverty Line
Nearly Half of Americans Are Now Classified as Low Income or Below the Poverty Line
Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Dec 16, 2011
New Study Shows How Wal-Mart Devastates Small Businesses
New Study Shows How Wal-Mart Devastates Small Businesses
Walmart cuts more than just prices -- it cuts small businesses and jobs, according to a new study released by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Weighing in on the debate about whether Walmart should enter New York City, the...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Nov 28, 2011
Wary of Web Page Censorship, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New Internet
Wary of Web Page Censorship, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New Internet
Users of the social news and community site Reddit don’t like the way the government seems to be muscling in on the Internet. So they plan to build a new one.
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Sep 4, 2011
Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
 
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Aug 29, 2011
Iceland's Economic Revolution
Iceland's Economic Revolution
An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Aug 4, 2011
Judge Allows American To Sue Donald Rumsfeld Over Torture Claims
Judge Allows American To Sue Donald Rumsfeld Over Torture Claims
A judge is allowing an Army veteran who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq to sue former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld personally for damages.
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Aug 4, 2011
Mystery Firm Gives $1 Million to Pro-Romney Group, Then Dissolves
Mystery Firm Gives $1 Million to Pro-Romney Group, Then Dissolves
A corporation that contributed $1 million to a political action committee supporting the presidential bid of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has been dissolved just four months after being formed. The company's fold, and its...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jul 29, 2011
Wealth Gap Between Minorities and White Americans Doubles After Recent Recession
Wealth Gap Between Minorities and White Americans Doubles After Recent Recession
A new study of U.S. census data reveals that wealth gaps between whites and minorities in the United States have grown to their widest levels since the U.S. government began tracking them a quarter-century ago. White Americans now have...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jul 28, 2011
Pay Your Taxes, Murdoch
Pay Your Taxes, Murdoch
If you had only paid a 6% tax rate over a 4-year period, accumulated $7 billion in offshore profits not subject to US taxes, had over 150 accounts in tax-haven countries like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, and used the money from your...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jun 26, 2011
Ayn Rand's Philosophical Influence on Neo Conservatives and Her Arguments Against Christian Morality
Ayn Rand's Philosophical Influence on Neo Conservatives and Her Arguments Against Christian Morality
“This odd little woman is attempting to give a moral sanction to greed and self interest,” Gore Vidal saidof Ayn Rand, writing for Esquire in July 1961, “and to pull it off she must at times indulge in purest Orwellian newspeak of the...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on May 28, 2011
Teacher Writes Open Letter Criticizing U.S. Secretary of Education
Teacher Writes Open Letter Criticizing U.S. Secretary of Education
In response to Arne Duncan's Open Letter to America's Teachers, Kansas high school teacher, David Reber wrote an open letter of his own that criticized the Secretary of Education's "corporate-style education reform".
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Mar 24, 2011
Nuclear Safety: Explained by the Invisible Hand of the Free Market
Nuclear Safety: Explained by the Invisible Hand of the Free Market
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Feb 21, 2011
Are you sick of highly paid teachers?
Are you sick of highly paid teachers?
WARNING!!!!  THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS HEAVY SARCASM!!!
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Feb 15, 2011
Tribecca Film Institute Creates $1 Million Grant for Social Documentaries
Tribecca Film Institute Creates $1 Million Grant for Social Documentaries
Tribeca Film Institute and Ford Foundation's JustFilms have partnered to create an annual grant supporting non-fiction transmedia projects centering on social justice and equality, with this year's $750,000 award total stepping up to...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 6, 2011
Hedgefund Executives Spent At Least $10 Million on Last Election
Hedgefund Executives Spent At Least $10 Million on Last Election
A small network of hedge fund executives pumped at least $10 million into Republican campaign committees and allied groups in last year’s elections, helping bankroll GOP victories that changed the balance of power in Washington...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 5, 2011
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that children's tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make processed food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the...