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Unrest Pushes Yemen to Brink of Humanitarian Disaster
Sanaa, Yemen - Even before demonstrators began demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh five months ago, Yemen's future looked bleak. A third of its people …
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Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., …
More Bucks, Less Bang (Part II): Can We Give Some Power Back to the DoD Oversight Personnel?
(Image: JR / Truthout) This column is a follow-up to my column last week about testing of our weapons and how the Department of Defense (DoD) system …
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Judge Rejects Conservative Activists’ Case Against Proposition 8
Supporters of the effort to repeal Prop 8 gather in front of the Phillip J. Burton Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on June 16, 2010. Chief District Judge James …
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Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Washington - Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the …
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Vermont Leads the Way
“We have a problem,” said House Speaker Shap Smith of Vermont. “We need to solve it.” This comment reflects a no-nonsense, hands-on, can-do attitude you rarely find …
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Stricter Regulation of Formaldehyde Remains Uncertain Despite Carcinogen Ruling
Family members outside their FEMA trailer. Trailers supplied by FEMA to Katrina survivors were found to have harmful levels of formaldehyde in them. Last week, the Department of Health …
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America Needs Taxes
What do USAA, CVS Caremark, Costco, UnitedHealth Group and Berkshire Hathaway all have in common?
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How to Add Value to the G20 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting
The G20 Agriculture Ministers will gather together for their first ever meeting next week in Paris (June 22-23) to discuss potential measures for the G20 governments to endorse regarding …
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The White House Needs a Real Jobs Plan
This was originally published on Monday, June 13. Today the President met with business leaders on his “jobs and competitiveness council,” who suggested more public-private partnerships to …