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TransCanada: No More Than 6,000 Pipeline Workers on the Job “on Any Given Day“
As the Feb. 21 deadline approaches for the Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the project's supporters have launched a new advertising campaign touting its job …
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Decline “Friend” Request: Social Media Meets 21st Century Statecraft in Latin America
A Senate report released in October 2011 urging the US government to expand the use of social media as a foreign policy tool in Latin America offers another warning …
How to Create a Depression
Cambridge - European political leaders may be about to agree to a fiscal plan which, if implemented, could push Europe into a major depression. To understand why, it is …
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Labor and Environment: Next Steps for Dialogue
What does the future hold for the relationship between environmentalism and organized labor? Judging from the highly-publicized controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline, America might appear to be entering …
Utah Doctors Join the Occupy Movement
Open pit copper mine run by London-based mining conglomerate Rio Tinto/Kennecott in Bingham Canyon, Utah. It is the world's largest open-pit mine and has created the world's largest …
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The FBI Spied on Me and Then Lied About It
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: zota, kalavinka) Five years ago, I joined a group of leaders of the Southern California Muslim community in an attempt to find …
Americans Are Less Nationalistic Than Flag-Waving Politicians Think
Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reason to believe so. Throughout the scramble for …
Working and Poor in the USA
"Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied …
Occupy Innovation: Neither the Military Nor the Market Does
Actress Anne Hathaway marches with demonstrators on the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Elana Levin) If the US fought for the post-carbon economy the way …
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BREAKING: Newt Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary
Newt Gingrich upset GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in South Carolina tonight, beating him by what will likely be a comfortable margin in the the state’s Republican presidential primary. …