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Dr. Michael Hudson: Democracy and Debt

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In a recent article, economist Dr. Michael Hudson offers a long view over millennia of humanity’s struggle for society free of tyranny and oligarchy.  History, indeed, repeats itself.  Inequality may be one of the fundamental pillars of injustice.  But debt is its bedrock.

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Pentagon Successfully Tests Hypersonic Flying Bomb

The Pentagon tested a bomb capable of travelling faster than the speed of sound and striking anywhere on Earth in under an hour, combining the global reach of the Cold War’s intercontinental ballistic missiles and the surgical precision of today’s robotic drones.

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The Capitalist Network That Runs the World

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Mathematical theorists have revealed the architecture of transnational corporations' (TNCs) interconnectedness in a report that bolsters the charges made by OWS touting society's obscene inequality—1% of the population owns almost half of all U.S. wealth.

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Scientists Remodel Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video

The concept of visually mapping out one's thoughts used to seem like science fiction. Now, it's a looming reality. Scientists have made a breakthrough by developing a system that collects visual activity in the human brain and reconstructs it as digital video.

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Cancer: A Different Beast Entirely?

Fascinating new research being done at Berkeley could completely transform the way we look at cancer from now on. Scientists are now arguing that the disease might actually be its own foreign species, instead of a creation of our own DNA.

A group of researchers at University of California at Berkeley have proposed a radical new theory that would cast most everything we know about cancer in a new light. While scientists have for years believed that the disease was the result of our own DNA run amok, the truth might be much weirder -- that cancer is, maybe, its own separate species.

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