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Nuclear Missiles, Cluster Bombs, Koch Brother-Like Legal Activism and Climate Solutions!? Greenwashing Lockheed Martin
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor. (Photo: Leonski Oh Leonski / Flickr) Would a progressive Burlington, Vermont, mayor partner with the Koch brothers? Obviously not. Their well-heeled right-wing …
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Economics is Always the First Casualty of Politics
President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 12, 2011. (Photo: Chuck Kennedy / White House) Both the past …
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Environmentalists Put Obama to Test on Climate Over Pipeline Plan
Washington - Ranchers from Nebraska, people in car caravans from California and hundreds of others plan to hold daily sit-ins at the White House starting Saturday, protesting against a …
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Saudi Arabia vs. the Arab Spring
Rugiya Hassan joins the protest with her son Hamza Jouad, 5, in Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, on February 23, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) …
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Egypt and Israel Back Away From Sinai Crisis as Egyptian Ambassador is Withdrawn
Cairo - Diplomats scrambled to avert a crisis in relations between Egypt and Israel on Saturday, and the Israeli government issued a rare statement of regret for the killing …
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‘West Memphis Three’ Released in Rare Plea Deal
Damien Echols, one of the three men known as the West Memphis Three. (Photo: Steve Hebert / The New York Times) Jonesboro, Ark. - The end, if …
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How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now
(Photo: Brian Talbot / Flickr) I like to ask friends about the oddest summer job they ever had. One talks about how he used to don a …
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Israel Launches Airstrikes on Gaza
Cairo - Egypt has registered a formal complaint with Israel over the killings of three Egyptian officers at the Sinai border and demanded an immediate investigation, state television reported …
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Eagle Deaths Investigated at LADWP Wind Power Generation Site
An investigation has been launched into the deaths of migratory birds including several federally protected golden eagles at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Pine Tree Wind …
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Syria Said to Fire on Protests in Defiance of Global Rebuke
Beirut, Lebanon -Thousands of Syrians took to the streets across the country on Friday calling for the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad, keeping up the pressure on him in …