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Clinton Refuses to Answer My Questions About Gaza Flotilla
Dear Secretary of State Clinton, I am a retired US Army reserve colonel with 29 years in the US Army and Army Reserves, and a former US diplomat …
Learning About Reality From Fiction: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo“
Sometimes politics and nonfiction writing can seem altogether too intense and we feel like we need a break. For some, like myself, reading fiction is a guilty pleasure that …
Gujarat: Making of a Fascist State
Abdul Shakeel Basha, known popularly as Shakeel to his friends, was arrested on various charges on June 17. The major charge is that he, along with his other friends, …
Voting Technology Research Gets In-Depth
As head of the Voter Technology Research Center at the University of Connecticut, professor Alexander Shvartsman directs a team of computer scientists granted special access to the optical scanners …
August 6 and 9: Perils and Possibilities
August is a month of memorial and actions for a nuclear free-world. August 6th and August 9th mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on the …
Gas Companies Drilling in Pennsylvania Commit Nearly 1,500 Environmental Violations in Two Years
Since 2008, Pennsylvanians whose property sits atop the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation have suffered through enough environmental problems to clutter an encyclopedia: A is for arsenic, found in soil …
When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
Berlin - A civil society protest against a British agrochemical company that claims it has invented a particular sort of broccoli has again focused attention on the question who …
Kenya Passes New Constitution
Eldoret, Kenya - Kenyans voted overwhelmingly for a new constitution that could signal a fresh start for the country’s historically damaged and divisive politics. Two-thirds of the country’s 12.4 …
Senate Approves Funding to Keep 140,000 Teachers’ Jobs
It’s like the ultimate back-to-school gift card: $10 billion for cash-strapped school districts to recall laid-off teachers and keep thousands of K-12 jobs. Supporters of the extra funding say …
Elena Kagan Will Be Fourth Woman to Join Supreme Court
Losing just one vote from the Democrats, the Senate approved Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, 63-37, Thursday afternoon. Despite Sen. Ben Nelson's (D-Nebraska) vote against her nomination, Kagan …