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Feinstein Earmark Quietly Paves Way for Easier Water Sales
Washington - Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein quietly used a $915 billion spending bill to accomplish a long-standing and, in some circles, controversial goal of easing Central Valley water sales. …
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Kim Jong-il’s Enigmatic Young Son Steps Forward, or Seems To
Tokyo — With the abrupt death of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, the fate of his isolated, nuclear-armed regime has dropped into the hands of his youngest son, …
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The Cowardly Senator Wyden: Casting His Lot With Paul Ryan on Health Care
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), right, watches as Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) discusses their Medicare plan in Washington, on Dec. 15, 2011. Wyden and Ryan discussed their bipartisan plan to …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Tea Party Clown Show
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
Occupy Climate Change: Anjali Appadurai Says, “Get It Done“
Climate talks ended in Durban the way everyone knew they would going in. The richest countries, chiefly the United States, prohibited the materialization of an emergency program to deal …
Noam Chomsky: The US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement Is “Part of a Global Program of World Militarization“
Hakim: We are speaking from the highlands of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, and we wanted to start off by thanking you sincerely for the guidance and wisdom that you …
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Without Autopsies, Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes
When Renee Royak-Schaler unexpectedly collapsed and died on May 22, no one ordered an autopsy. Not the doctors at Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Md., …
Occupation 2.0: Occupy Wall Street Challenges Neighboring Church, and Capitalism
Matt Heyd, associate priest and director of faith and action at Trinity, speaks to Malory Butler and Laura Gottesdiener, members of the Occupy movement, in New York, Dec. 15, …
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Missoula’s Supremely Important Vote
In November's elections, the national media gave extensive coverage to a proposed “personhood amendment” to Mississippi's state constitution. This extremist, anti-choice ballot initiative declared that a person's life begins …
The War on Drug Addicts – and Everyone Else
Needle supplies at the Down East AIDS Network needle exchange in Ellsworth, Maine, Thursday, October 29, 2009. (Photo: Craig Dilger / The New York Times) When Congressional …