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Want to Combat Climate Change? Ignore Congress
Congress comes back into session next week, but environmentalists and climate change activists have given up on the legislature. Instead, activists are planning to spur popular concern about these …
Rescue, Relief, Reconciliation: Chilean President Sebastián Piñera
On March 11, 2010, Sebastián Piñera was sworn in as the Republic of Chile’s 35th president in a ceremony at the National Congress in ValparaĂso. The new president received …
Iraq: The Democrats’ War
The ongoing presence of over 50,000 US troops, many thousands of civilian employees and tens of thousands of US-backed mercenaries raises serious questions over the significance of the partial …
Rahm Emanuel: Expected Departure Could Lead to West Wing Shakeup
The expected departure of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in the next few months, possibly to run for mayor of Chicago, could open the way to a …
Has California Supreme Court Ruling “Wiped Out” Proposition 8 Opposition?
The California Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have no legal obligation to defend Proposition 8. The 2008 voter-approved measure banning same …
Veterans Exposed to Carcinogen Shed Light on Secret Iraq Contracting Deal
A lawsuit filed by Iraq war veterans against a former Halliburton subsidiary over exposure to toxic chemicals is not the first of its kind, but it has brought new …
Robert Scheer | It’s the Mortgages, Stupid (2)
This week's proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than …
Gareth Porter | Petraeus Spin on Improvised Explosive Devices War Belied by Soaring Casualties
Washington, DC - Gen. David Petraeus claimed limited success this week in the war within a war over the Taliban's planting of roadside bombs, but official Pentagon data shows …
Come on People Now
Blame it on George Clooney. When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti on January of this year he was at the forefront of Hollywood's response to the disaster. As a …
9/11: The Rest Should Be Silence
This past Sunday was beautiful, bright and warm, not unlike the sky blue day when those two airliners hit the World Trade Center in 2001, just a mile or …