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The Debt Problems of the European Periphery
Last week's renewed anxiety over bond market collapse in Europe's periphery should come as no surprise. Greece's EU/IMF program heaps more public debt onto a nation that is already …
Seven Ways to Transform Banking
Are you as outraged as I am by the Wall Street bankers with their fat bonuses, shoddy mortgages, and financial shenanigans? With the gridlock in Washington, I wanted to …
How Stuxnet Cyber Weapon Targeted Iran Nuclear Plant
Stuxnet, the world's first known “cyber missile,” was designed to sabotage special power supplies used almost exclusively in nuclear fuel-refining centrifuge systems, researchers studying its code have revealed. The …
New Report Reveals Health Insurance Industry Pumped $86 Million Into the US Chamber to Kill Reform
This morning, Bloomberg reporter Drew Armstrong broke an incredible story revealing that health insurance companies, like UnitedHealth and CIGNA, funneled $86.2 million into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in …
The New Hunger Epidemic, Making CPCs Come Clean and Smoking Hipsters
As some Americans obsess over whether to brine or deep-fry their Thanksgiving turkeys, others are going hungry. Seth Freed Wessler reports for ColorLines that 50 million Americans went hungry …
“Yes, We Can”? (2)
It’s now been two weeks since the midterm elections, and I’m noticing that many folks I know are depressed — not consciously about the elections, which have receded somewhat …
Documents Show FDA Failed to Consult Wildlife Officials About Genetically Modified Salmon
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may have violated the Endangered Species Act when it failed to involve other federal agencies in an upcoming decision that could legalize genetically …
News in Brief: Republican National Committee Members Wage Quiet War to Topple Steele, and More
Republican National Committee Members Wage Quiet War to Topple Steele
Once Again, a Great Career in Harlem Must Come to a Close
Congressman Charles Rangel (D-New York), formerly one of the most influential members of the House, has been convicted of 11 of 12 ethics charges (he was originally charged with …
STOP: Another 100 Years of Fossil-Digging in North America?
Soon I will tell you about five Godzilla–scale fossil–digging projects in North America that if approved will set us on a course to repeat our past with grave implications …