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Washington - A year after the BP oil spill put the brakes on full-bore domestic production, it's back to “drill, baby, drill” as federal lawmakers, anxious about rising gasoline …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) I am continuing our series of solutions for the Department of Defense (DoD) with a look at how the government keeps track …

Yesterday was tax day and as in previous years, Tea Party activists rallied across the country on the movement's most significant organizing day since it exploded on tax day …

Thousands of gallons of potentially toxic hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” liquids spilled across pastures and into a stream in rural Pennsylvania early this morning, after a natural gas well …

For the first time in over 40 years, I don't intend to vote for any of the candidates running for national election. That is for the simple reason that …

This weekend, as 10,000 energetic, bright, young people are converging on Washington, DC, for PowerShift 2011, a geezer* is waging an all-out assault on their future. Eighty-two-year-old Texas fossil-fuel-pushing …

Leg shackles in a classroom at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are photographed on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) …

Reporting from Beirut - At least three people were killed and a large number were arrested early Tuesday after Syrian security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters in Homs, …

  As the government approaches its borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion, Republicans are seeking political advantage over what conditions should be attached to raising that limit.  This is a …

Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. (Courtesy of Greg Palast) Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout …