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BP: Four Years On, No Restoration in Sight
For fisherfolk and coastal residents living in the impact zone of BP's 2010 oil spill, the disaster has never ended.
BP Gets an Anniversary Gift From the Obama Administration
The EPA ruled that BP could start bidding on lucrative new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Knowledge Is Crime in Washington: Kidnapping, Torture, Assassination and Perjury Are Not
Tom Engelhardt: In Washington today, knowledge is the only crime. That's a political reality of the twenty-first century.
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Rancher-Indigenous Alliance Stands the Line in DC Against Keystone XL
On Earth Day, April 22, ranchers and members of native communities along the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline will arrive in Washington, DC to reject the pipeline …
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Five Things to Know About How Corporations Block Access to Everything From Miracle Drugs to Science Research
Our system of intellectual property rights is patently ridiculous.
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Dean Baker | Economic Policy in a Post-Piketty World
If we want to counter the rise in inequality that we have seen in recent decades we are going to have to find mechanisms other than a "global wealth …
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Chris Hedges | The Rhetoric of Violence
Chris Hedges: Chauvinism, violent retribution, a perverted Christianity and the celebration of a mythic Anglo-Saxon history will sever sections of the population from reality, enticing them into an American …
Bending Aid Toward Business
How business drives US foreign policy, and what to do about it.
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The Selective Subservience System
The United States doesn't have too few soldiers. It has too many wars.
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Mistake in Shutting Down a US News Source
US intelligence, best known for collecting information about people including Americans, did have one agency that gave the public access to its translations of foreign news articles - until …