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Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation
Japan's leading business journal “Toyo Keizai” has published an article by Hokkaido Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment specialist. The piece, entitled "The Problem of Radiation Exposure …
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The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story
A view of the Goldman Sachs building at 200 West street in New York, April, 18, 2010. Last year Goldman Sachs spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the …
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Massey Energy’s Man-Made Hellhole
Paul Jackson, director of operations, right, talks with a miner inside Teco Energy's E3-1 coal mine in Hazard, Ky., on April 14, 2010. Investigations into the Upper Big Branch …
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Industry Views Prevail on Radiation Risks, Health Experts Unheard on Health Effects of Fukushima
US media coverage of the nuclear disaster in Japan contains vanishingly little serious discussion of the human health risks posed by the radiation escaping from the Fukushima nuclear facility. …
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Rupert Murdoch’s Tabloid Involved in British Phone Hacking Scandal
For months, Britain's scandal over scoop-hungry reporters hacking into the cellphones of celebrities and politicians drew shrugs from the general public, which viewed the affair as a rarified dispute …
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A New Dawn for the US Left
Protesters demonstrate against provisions of Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard Hurd) Prospects for the left in the United States are far …
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Obama Summons GOP and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden hold an economic meeting with senior advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, June 21, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza …
The Lies That Sold Obama’s Escalation in Afghanistan
Soldiers of 1st Squadron 61st Cavalry 101st Airborne Division listen to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates while he visits Field Operating Base in Connolly, Afghanistan, December 7, 2010. (Photo: …
Leon the Knife or Leon the Ladle: On “Reform,” Will Secretary Leon Panetta Go the Way of Past DoD Secretaries?
Incoming secretary of defense Leon Panetta. (Image: JR / Truthout) Leon Panetta, fresh from his stint as the head of the CIA, became the new secretary of …
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For a Struggling Economy, Fatalism May Be Deadly
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Our current economic discourse in the United States is pervaded by fatalism. Leave aside the people who insist …