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Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant!
Should the US government be building more nuclear weapons? Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don’t appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against …
Is the Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline in America’s Best “National Interest”?
Washington - Proponents and opponents of the fiercely debated Keystone XL pipeline agree on at least one point. The next three months will be crucial in bolstering their respective …
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Nepal’s Women Farmers Discard Imported Hybrid Seeds and Husband Local Varieties in Co-Op Seed Banks
Kathmandu - Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal’s women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks. …
Turkey Does the Right Thing – an Analysis
In the wake of the dubious UN investigatory report which all but exonerated Israel for its 31 May 2010 attack on the Mavi Marmara–an attack that killed 8 Turkish …
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Timor’s Oil: Blessing or Curse?
Oil has different meanings for different societies. For developed societies like the United States, Japan, and Western Europe, oil is like an addictive drug that people only want more …
Did a Top GOP Staffer for Senator Grassley Cover Up Evidence of News Corp. Hacking In The US?
A top investigator for the Senate Finance Committee, working under Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), may have had smoking gun evidence of News Corp’s hacking activity. While News Corp’s British …
Toward Total Information Awareness
(Photo: Ludovic Bertron / Flickr) It is no secret that the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) bungled a multitude of opportunities to foil the …
Profit Motive Underlies Outbreak of Immigration Bills
July 29 marked the one-year anniversary of Arizona's controversial immigration law, a year that has seen similar anti-immigrant bills emerge across the country. Thanks to the release of over …
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The Price of 9/11
George W. Bush addresses the media on Israel and Lebanon in August 2006. (Photo: Eric Draper / Wikimedia) New York – The September 11, 2001, terror attacks …
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Qaddafi Loyalists Fled to Niger by Convoy, US Affirms
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya, and Washington— More than a dozen high-ranking loyalists of Moammar Kadafi made a desert getaway into neighboring Niger, US officials said Tuesday, but …