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Why ExxonMobil’s Partnerships With Russia’s Rosneft Challenge the Narrative of US Exports as Energy Weapon
The situation in Ukraine is a simple one at face value, at least from an energy perspective.
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Reckoning Time for Lawbreaking Utilities on Coal Ash?
Sue Sturgis breaks down the numbers in the latest coal ash dumping incidents.
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Questions Remain About US Border Patrol’s Killing of Teen
At least 21 people have died in confrontations with Border Patrol agents, often out of sight of witnesses or fellow agents, in the past four years.
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With International Law in the News, Could We Make the US Comply?
Robert Naiman: There are things we Americans could do right now to push the US closer to compliance with international law.
Robert Strauss’s Watergate Secret
An enduring Watergate mystery is whether Democratic powerbroker Robert Strauss earned his GOP spurs by secretly helping the Republicans in the spy scandal.
The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
So many of the assertions made about “maximizing shareholder value” are false that they should be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.
Current Iran “Crisis” Began With Overthrow of Democratically Elected Government in 1953
In “Manufactured Crisis,” author Gareth Porter details the manipulation and fabrications that have accompanied the current Iranian nuclear situation.
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Academia Under the Influence
Rather than bastions of free thought and intellectual rigor, colleges' historic cooperation with government is outlined in ‘The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent.’
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The Fold Behind the Knee: Kopenawa and Albert’s “Falling Sky“
Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert's “The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman” is a monument to the authors' lifetime of friendship and collaboration and a searing testimony of …
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Anti-Gay Law Will Be Overturned Say Uganda’s Campaigners
Human rights campaigners who filed a recent legal petition against Uganda's draconian anti-gay law believe that they have a compelling case for its nullification.