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BP Still Being Awarded Lucrative Government Contracts (2)
(Photo: sunstarrr) BP continues to receive tens of millions of dollars in government contracts, despite the fact that the British oil company is under federal …
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Conservative Tax Tricks – Are We “Broke?“
Conservatives have been saying lately, “We're broke,” and need to cut back on the things we (government) do to protect and empower each other. They have a unique definition …
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“Restrepo” Director Is Killed in Libya
Benghazi, Libya - Tim Hetherington, the Oscar-nominated film director and conflict photographer who produced the film “Restrepo,” was killed in the besieged city of Misurata on Wednesday, and three …
War as the Politics of Failure
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry launches a missile against Col. Moammar Gadhafi's military on March 29, 2011. (Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Sunderman/U.S. Navy via …
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Researchers Say Oil Dispersants Still an Issue in the Gulf
A boat wades through the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico, on June 16, 2010. The water has an iridescent rainbow sheen from the dispersant used to …
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News in Brief: BP Makes Big Contributions to GOP Leaders, and More
BP Makes Big Contribution to GOP Leaders ThinkProgress reports that oil company British Petroleum (BP) broke a self-imposed freeze on political contributions to make big donations to …
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Labor’s Tangled Web: A Review of “Civil Wars in US Labor“
(Image: Haymarket Books) “There are no shortcuts in politics,” bellowed a respected, much-older labor veteran as we young militants sat around hoping to pick up a few …
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Smearing Japan
Just days before the recent earthquake struck Japan, a controversy erupted over comments attributed to Kevin Maher, the head of the State Department’s Japan Desk. In news reports that …
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Water Pumping Begins at Japan Nuclear Reactor
The difficult task of pumping highly radioactive water out of the basement of a turbine building at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant began Tuesday, but officials cautioned that …
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Congress Rewrites Goldstone’s Op-Ed
Leading Israeli politicians have claimed that Israel's conduct has been vindicated, distorting Justice Goldstone's op-ed so comprehensively that Amnesty International excoriated the Israeli spin as being "based on a …