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Fighting Nears Tripoli, Where Qaddafi Keeps Grip on Power
Tobruk, Libya - Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya kept his grip on the capital on Wednesday, but large areas of the east of the country remained out of his …
The Republicans Are Coming, the Republicans Are Coming
If you are not numbered among the wealthiest five percent of Americans with the distinct prospect of securing 85 percent of your annual income across the length of your …
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Why Monsanto Always Wins
The USDA recently approved Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa. Government regulators openly rely on data and research provided by the biotech industry when approving GE technology. (Photo: tipsycat) …
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Death Sentence for Arizona Minuteman Who Killed Girl and Dad
Phoenix, Arizona — Shawna Forde, a leader in the Minutemen border watch movement, has been sentenced to die for the 2009 killings of a Latino father and his 9-year-old …
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Did Roosevelt’s Racism Cause WWII?
That was the argument made in a U.S. bestseller in 2009 written by a WWII historian whose father had raised the US flag on Iwo Jima. And the Roosevelt …
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Governing by Obeying the People: Bolivia’s Politics of the Street
From across North Africa to Wisconsin, activists are navigating a new terrain of global protest and relationships with their governments. Whether in ousting old tyrants or dealing with new …
Why Monsanto Always Wins
The recent approval of Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa is one of most divisive controversies in American agriculture, but in 2003, it was simply the topic at hand in a …
News in Brief: Pirates Kill Four Americans, and More
Pirates Kill Four Americans
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A Perspective on President Calderón’s Militarized “Drug Conflict“
Colombia’s never ending conflict with the country’s drug dealers has demonstrably decreased since the mid-1990s, although the U.S. public’s demand for foreign narcotics has not.[1] While Washington’s anti-narcotics efforts have …
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Pentagon Faces Class-Action Lawsuit for Failure to Protect Service Members From Rape
On February 15, 2011, the Pentagon was slammed with a class action lawsuit filed by 15 women and two men who are victims and survivors of rape in the …