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Private Contractors Making a Killing Off the Drug War
As tens of thousands of corpses continue to pile up as a result of the US-led “War on Drugs” in Latin America, private contractors are benefiting from lucrative federal …
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EPA Fracking Study to Focus on Five States – but Not Wyoming
The Environmental Protection Agency will focus its national study of hydraulic fracturing on seven areas in five states but will exclude the two Wyoming gas fields where agency researchers …
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How Free Trade Made Democracy a Disadvantage
Four Stories I want to share four quick stories: 1. Democracy The story of America We fought a wealthy powerful few …
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Gone With the Papers
(Photo: DRB62) I visited the Hartford Courant as a high school student. It was the first time I was in a newsroom. The Connecticut paper’s newsroom, the …
Winners and Losers in the Great, Global Energy Struggle to Come
Elvin Batz, an installer with SPG Solar, checks the pontoon structure and solar panels on the company's Floatovoltaics floating solar array, stationed in an irrigation pond in Petaluma, California, …
Fukushima’s Cesium Spew – Deadly Catch-22s in Japan Disaster Relief
A worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power does laundry at a laundromat in the town of Iwaki-Yumoto, a hot spring resort near the plant, in the Fukushima Prefecture, …
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Perry’s Prayer-Palooza
When Texas became a republic in 1836, its constitution banned “ministers of the gospel” from holding any political office. Our problem these days, however, isn't ministers in …
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Bradley Manning Contingents Show Up at Pride Parades
Even as he sits in a Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, jail, Bradley Manning was not forgotten at LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) pride parades across the country this past …
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Hague Court Issues Warrant for Qaddafi for War Crimes
Paris - The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants on Monday for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and his chief of intelligence, Abdullah Senussi …
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Former Khmer Rouge Leaders Go on Trial in Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The four surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge went on trial Monday, more than three decades after the collapse of a government that caused the …