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Chesapeake Energy Well Blowout in Wyoming Causes Evacuation, Methane “Roared” for Days
A potentially dangerous oil well blowout at a Chesapeake Energy site in Wymoing caused at least 60 and perhaps 70 residents to evacuate within 5 miles of the disaster for several …
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Chicago to Welcome Militarized May Day?
McCormick Place, site of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, Illinois. Operation Red Zone, a security perimeter around the site, will be patrolled by federal law enforcement carrying “non-lethal” …
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Wall Street Banks Coordinate to Fight May Day Protests, Compare Themselves to Elk Hunted by Wolves
Organizers and protesters around the world will come together to commemorate International Workers Day tomorrow, and they are taking on familiar targets. Large protest actions are planned in more …
Confronting the Big Empty
Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural …
ALEC Retreats, the Right Wing Freaks
Occupy Santa Fe protesters demonstrate against ALEC in January, 2012. (Photo: suenosdeuomi) Customers should be able to know if companies that they are supporting with their purchases are busy …
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Our Hope Is in Our Struggle: Reclaiming Land and Life in Honduras
In Honduras, as in most places, the government and the wealthy treat land as a commodity. In pursuit of the profits it offers, they have taken enormous tracts of …
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ALEC’s Comeuppance
No one likes a smart aleck — or a stupid one, for that matter. A really stupid one is called ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which masquerades as …
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May Day
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can …
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Connecticut’s Death Penalty Message
Greenwich - Since the 2010 elections, the activism of newly empowered conservative and Republican state legislatures has gained national attention with their wars on public employee unions, additional restrictions …
The Obama Contradiction
He has few constraints (except those he's internalized). No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to …