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Uranium Mining Threatens Grand Canyon Communities
An orphan uranium mine at the Grand Canyon. (Photo: tbone_sandwich) Flagstaff, Arizona - Over a thousand uranium mines have already contaminated water across the Southwest, poisoning communities …
Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking?
A line of rebel trucks wait at the western entrance to Ajdabiya, Libya, on April 11, 2011. (Photo: Bryan Denton / The New York Times) Several writers …
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Lies About the US Civil War 150 Years Later
Tuesday marks 150 years since the start of the US Civil War. Newspapers everywhere are proclaiming it the deadliest war in US history, the costliest US war in terms …
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Report: Big Profits Drove Faulty Ratings at Moody’s, S&P
Washington - Analysts who reviewed complex mortgage bonds that ultimately collapsed and ruined the U.S. housing market were threatened with firing if they lost lucrative business, prompting faulty ratings …
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Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Comes Home as Fuel Risks Get Fresh Look
Washington - As Japan struggles with radioactive contamination from one of the world's worst nuclear accidents, American nuclear experts are watching for clues on how to make U.S. nuclear …
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America and the Great Disappointment
(Photo: Jacek Sniecikowski) I was considering having myself dusted with ash and measured for sackcloth last week, so many are the current predictions of impending apocalypse. …
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Egyptian Prosecutors Order 15-Day Detention of Hosni Mubarak
Cairo - Egyptian prosecutors said on Wednesday they had detained the former president, Hosni Mubarak, and his two sons for 15 days to face questioning about corruption and abuse …
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From Prosperity to Austerity: Dialing Down Our Expectations
In the middle of the 1982 recession, with the worst unemployment since the Depression, Ronald Reagan gravely looked into the camera and told us that prosperity was right around …
Owned by the World’s Largest “Charity” Organization to Dodge Taxes, IKEA Thwarts Union Organizing
Three years after an IKEA factory moved to the small blue collar town of Danville, VA, the international furniture giant has become the center of a union battle, racial …
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I Remember America
President Barack Obama returns to the Oval Office. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) It has not always been this way. Maybe we're all suckers for the …