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“Another Kind of Fukushima?” Asks Whistleblower Robert Gilkeson
No, I didn't make up the whistleblower title for Registered Geologist Robert (Bob) H. Gilkeson. For his important work on groundwater contamination at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in …
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The Dangerous Hi-Jinks of the GOP’s Juveniles
I’ve spent enough of my life in Washington to take its theatrics with as much seriousness as a Seinfeld episode. A large portion of what passes for policy debate …
President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street
President Barack Obama during a press conference at the White House in Washington, July 15 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) The ability of …
Debating the Debt
Truthout follows the debt ceiling debate: Reading the Debt Ceiling Tea Leaves to Predict the Future Monday 18 July 2011 by: Jack Rasmus, Truthout | …
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Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work
During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake …
Koch Brothers’ ALEC Tentacles Creep Into Your State
(Photo: internets_dairy) Thanks to the work from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), investigative journalists like Beau Hodai and The Nation's exposé, we now know that …
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America’s Disappeared
(Photo: meggesje) Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly …
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WikiLeaks: Haiti Disaster Capitalism’s Latest Electroshock Patient
Naomi Klein was asked today about what additional case studies she would add to future editions of her 2007 “Shock Doctrine”. Klein's answer: Greece and Wisconsin. Fair …
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Why Did Congress Waste Six Months
Washington - The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation's debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, …
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Cameron Calls in Parliament as the Hacking Scandal Grows
London - Prime Minister David Cameron cut short an African trip on Monday and ordered a special parliamentary session back home to debate the widening phone-hacking scandal just hours …