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Massey WV Coal Battle Take Two: Erie, Colorado Citizens Fight Fracking
Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal — the …
An Interview With Medea Benjamin About the Life-and-Death Decisions of Drone Warfare
It is mind-boggling that we are empowering one person to make life-and-death decisions, but it is perhaps even more mind-boggling that this unconstitutional, immoral killing spree (that is making …
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Ending Lockout, Teamsters Wrap Agreement With Sotheby’s
Teamster art handlers voted to settle their dispute with Sotheby's yesterday, ending a 10-month lockout that became a symbol of Occupy Wall Street's fight against the austerity agenda of …
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Double Standards on Civilian Deaths
In the war fever being ramped up against Syria, there is broad public indignation over the massacre of more than 100 civilians in the town of Houla last weekend. …
Justice Roberts Fixes Supreme Court Schedule; Will Help Romney, Big Business Dominate Election
Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that helped bring even more corporate money into politics, has already made history. Outside groups have spent record amounts influencing the 2012 …
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Verdict Revives Egyptian Anger
Cairo - If the life sentences for former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and one of his key allies were meant to placate Egyptians, they have had the opposite effect. …
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Microphone Grabbed Out of Hands of Reporter Questioning Honeywell CEO
For the last two years, I have covered union busting efforts by Honeywell, their close connections to President Obama and how federal agencies have assisted Honeywell in three different …
Nuclear Disarmament at an Impasse
In Vienna, countries armed with nuclear weapons clearly expressed their refusal to commit themselves in a process of nuclear disarmament
Don’t Thank Me for My Service
Now, that is not something for which a person should be proud nor thanked. In fact, it is regrettable, and for me a source of guilt and shame, something …
Noam Chomsky | Somebody Else’s Atrocities
In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us - whoever us is. Almost any moment in history yields innumerable illustrations. …