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Why Biden Won
The vice presidential debate was a contest between a genuine political veteran and a wooden marionette.
Sunrise and Sunset in Afghanistan
Young people in Afghanistan are not oblivious to the shortcomings of their government, or their educational and political systems. On the contrary, they are all-too aware of the corruption …
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Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline
The 1700-mile proposed pipeline would run through six states and would mean game over for the climate, according to a scientist studying global warming.
The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are?
And the corporate media reporters covering the campaign are no help, either.
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Last-Ditch Bid in Texas to Try to Stop Oil Pipeline
As bulldozers and diggers churn up a 50-foot-wide path for the pipeline a small group of environmental activists have taken to the towering trees in its way.
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Punishing Free Speech and Letting Murder Off the Hook: Justice Denied in Missouri
In US District Court in Jefferson City, Missouri, two anti-drone protestors were sentenced for trespassing at Whiteman Air Force Base.
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Arlen Specter, Longtime GOP Senate Moderate, Dies at 82
Specter, the irascible senator from Pennsylvania, was at the center of many of the Senateu2019s most divisive legal battles.
Can We Make the International Monetary Fund More Democratic?
That the Annual Meetings of 2012 will probably make little progress towards an agreed formula should be considered an opportunity to rethink it from the beginning.
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Taxpayers Spend Millions on Valley Fever in Prisons
Californians are locked into contributing to the cost of treating state inmates sickened by valley fever.
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Frackademia: Controversial SUNY Buffalo Shale Institute’s Reputation Unraveling
Cuts have created new opportunities for the shale gas industry to fill a funding vacuum, with the SUNY system's coffers hollowed out and starved for cash.