Irregular Times Donations to Charity:Water and the Reason Rally

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When we sell a made-in-the USA liberal shirt through Skreened, we give one dollar to an international relief charity and another dollar to a domestic political cause. Nope, no candidates. We’ve kind of learned our lesson there (thanks teaspoons, Barack). …

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Auckland Police Using Fake Badge Numbers While Evicting Occupy Protesters

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The use of fake badge numbers suggests that some among the Auckland police were prepared to violate the law in order to break up the Occupy Auckland protest, knowing that their own illegal anti-protester activities could not be traced back to them.

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Don’t Let the USA Go the Way of Hungary. Vote Against Intolerance in 2012.

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Viktor Orban and the Jobbik party in Hungary have exploited the same political playbook being used by the Republican presidential candidates here in the United States of America. The result of their crackdown on freedom and tolerance? A generation of young people are leaving the country.

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Donation: Village Enterprise Fund

Every time the writers for Irregular Times sell a sweatshop-free made in the USA t-shirt, we chip in a dollar toward economic development in an impoverished nation. That’s the way we slice the Gordian knot of supporting ethical production while …

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Occupy The Igloo

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The Occupy Igloo activism has already started in Davos, Switzerland. There’s not only an igloo to house the Occupy protest, but a snow podium too, for frigid press conferences.

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Baby Christmas Island Crabs About To Be Wiped Out By Oil Spill

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On oil spill on Kiritimati is set to wipe out a generation of the island’s red crabs. Large numbers of whale sharks, the largest fish in the world, now gathering in the waters around Kiritimati to eat the larval crabs, will also be affected.

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Irregular Times Donation: Humanist Crisis Response Horn of Africa Project

We sell American-made political shirts to keep Irregular Times going because shirts made in other countries are notorious for noxious sweatshop labor conditions, not because we’re xenophobes. We believe strongly that money should flow to parts of the world where …

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Invented Palestinian Dies After Being Hit In The Face With Tear Gas Canister

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If I were to invent a nation just for deluded people, I would name it the Republican of Delusion, and I would appoint Newt Gingrich as its Delusional Dictator for Life. Newt Gingrich is not a reasonable candidate for President. That’s why I say, No Newt is Good Newt.

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Department of Labor: Forced Child Labor Behind Toys Made in China

When you go shopping for gifts this year, will you buy toys made in China? The U.S. Department of Labor maintains a list of items that it has a “reasonable basis to believe” are made in a country through the …

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More Shirt Sale Donations: Sanitary Water Projects and Occupy Maine

With another set of made-in-the-USA shirt sales coming in, it’s time again for the writers of Irregular Times to keep our commitment and make donations to international human relief and to American political action. This round of donations goes out …

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Shirt Sale Donations: Village Enterprise Fund and the ACLU

When we started selling shirts to help cover the costs of running the Irregular Times website, we decided to print only on shirts that are made in the USA because, despite all the attempts to erode worker rights, American textile …

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Governments Request More User Data from Google in 2011. Which Countries are the Biggest Culprits?

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Earlier this month, I shared with you a map showing results from Google’s report on the number of requests for user data from the governments of the world, current through December 2010: Google has just updated its report to include …

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World Governments Request User Data from Google. Which Ones and How Much?

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Ram Bomjon Spam: Who Has The Terrible Animal Sacrifice?

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In the United States, we slaughter enough animals to hold 25 festival slaughters the size of the Gahimai slaughter every day of the year. So, what kind of basis for moral outrage do we have here in the United States to condemn a the Gadhimai slaughter in Nepal?

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Shell Oil Brings Oil Spills to North Sea and Niger Delta

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Shell Oil has acknowledged two new devastating oil spills, one in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, and another in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, where the United Nations just reported that it would take 30 years for Shell Oil to clean up the oil pollution mess it had already created before the present spill.

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New Oil Spill Strikes Mumbai

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A year ago, I wrote about an oil spill off the coast of Mumbai. Today, I’ll take note of the same thing – but it’s a totally new oil spill. Last week, the M V Rak Carrier sank in the …

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July 2011 Donations: The Vietnam Project and the Green Party USA

For every made-in-the-USA shirt we sell through Skreened, we writers for Irregular Times set aside a dollar to donate to a liberal domestic political cause and another dollar to donate to charitable projects in poverty alleviation and economic development outside …

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Boston and Brown Universities team up to calculate Cost of War: $4 Trillion and 250000 Dead is just the beginning

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On September 11 2011, 2996 people were killed and some buildings were destroyed in a series of terrorist attacks. These costs we know. What has been the cost of America’s reaction? The Eisenhower Study Group made up of researchers at …

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