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Noam Chomsky | How America's Great University System Is Getting Destroyed
Noam Chomsky. (photo: Graeme Robertson/Guardian UK)
Noam Chomsky, AlterNet
Excerpt: "On hiring faculty off the tenure track: That's part of the business model. It's the same as hiring temps in industry or what they call 'associates' at Wal-Mart, employees that aren't owed benefits."
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Russian Lawmakers Clear Putin's Plan to Use Military Force in Ukraine
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "Russia's upper house of parliament on Saturday approved President Vladimir Putin's request to send troops into Ukraine, escalating international tensions a week after Ukrainian protesters forced out their pro-Russian president, Victor Yanukovich."
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Charles Pierce | The Secret Clinton Files Are Almost Here
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Did you know about the secret files? No, not the ones in the safe at the Mena Airport."
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Kathy Kelly | 'After 3,000 Years of Pain': Women's Liberation at Barefoot College
Kathy Kelly, Common Dreams
Kelly writes: "'The caste system gave us 3,000 years of pain,' Ram Niwas told us. 'But slowly, slowly, we are moving beyond it.'"
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UN Says 703 Killed in Iraq in February Attacks
Sinan Salaheddin, The Associated Press
Salaheddin reports: "The figures issued by the U.N.'s mission to Iraq is close to January's death toll of 733, showing that a surge of violence that began 10 months ago with a government crackdown on a Sunni protest camp is not receding."
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USDA: Yellowstone Bison Could Launch New Herds Without Risking Cattle
Laura Zuckerman, Reuters
Zuckerman reports: "But representatives of cattle producers who have long fought to keep Yellowstone's wild bison, or buffalo, from straying outside the park say their concerns are not entirely allayed by the study."
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Why the 'Non-GMO' Label Is Organic's Frenemy
Dan Charles, National Public Radio
Charles reports: "The increasingly successful movement to eliminate genetically modified crops - GMOs - from food is turning out to be organic's false friend."
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