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Fracking Industry Propaganda Battles Science in Obama’s New Energy Pick
MIT's Energy Initiative has received more than $125 million dollars from fossil fuel firms since 2006.
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More to Fear Than Fear Itself: The War on Terror’s War on Human Rights
The US should head the UN human rights rapporteur's demand to release information about CIA programs under Bush.
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If the Dalai Lama Were Pope
The Dalai Lama on a visit to Berlin in May, 2008. (Photo: Jan Michael Ihl)Despite Vatican efforts to keep the public eye focused on pomp and circumstance, speculation about …
Is The “War On Terror” Worth The Price?
As the sequester kicks in, automatic cuts will kick in across the board- including cuts to the defense budget. However, when one considers how completely out of whack our …
Former DEA Heads Urge Justice Department to Block Historic Marijuana Regulation Implementation in Colorado and Washington
For the second time in six months, former DEA heads have collaborated to urge Attorney General Eric Holder to oppose state-level efforts to tax and regulate marijuana. Today, they …
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Parties to Genocide
One would think that that a certain troubled country seeking absolute security from the possibility of a terrorist attack - by trashing its constitution and giving its president the …
Radioactive Metals To Be Used In Forks, Belt Buckles, Other Consumer Goods
The Department of Energy has said they may start allowing radioactive waste metals to be reenter the consumer market. But that's okay, what could possibly be near your belt …
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Why You Don’t Frack With John Lennon’s Farm
When fracking hits close to home, big names find common ground with small towns.
The Militarization of the National Security State
Truthout talked with Melvin Goodman about the military and intelligence network machine that maintains America's empire.
US Climate Bomb is Ticking: What the Gas Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The history, science, economics and politics of hydraulic shale gas fracking.