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US Sends a Message to Iran With Arms Sales to Gulf States
The U.S. is not so much ignoring the Arab Spring (since it cannot be ignored), but viewing it in the larger context — i.e., our cold-hot war with the …
“Occupy” Protests at a Crossroads
A week ago, I produced a TV documentary on inside the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York. It was already somewhat obsolete by the time it aired. …
Radiation Reporting: Blind, Idiotic, Corrupt – or All Three
Officials with the Tokyo Electric Power Company and reporters view the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from inside a bus, in Japan, Nov. 12, 2011. Members of the …
Can the Oceans Continue to Feed Us?
Washington - Far out on the Pacific Ocean, the world's industrial fishing fleets pursue one of the last huge wild hunts — for the tuna eaten by millions of …
Mayor “1%" Bloomberg Tries to Make it Harder for Homeless to Get Into Shelters
(Photo: moving-eye.be) Last week the Bloomberg administration announced new eligibility rules that would make it harder for homeless people to get into city shelters, a cost-cutting measure …
Voices From the Occupations
Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, November 5th. (Photo: David Shankbone) The Occupy protesters have been ridiculed by the press, celebrated by the left, and reviled by the …
Activist Leaders Explain How They Beat the Keystone XL Pipeline
(Photo: tarsandsaction / Flickr) Washington - Just six months ago, few could have imagined that an inanimate object as ugly as a 36-inch diameter, 1,702-mile oil sands …
US Africa Policy Assailed by Africans
London -– Neither overcast sky nor small crowd dampened the passion Duale Yusuf displayed as he denounced the destructive U.S. foreign policy in Somalia during a protest recently outside …
Guantanamo, the Most Expensive Prison on Earth, Hurts Taxpayers and Moral Ground
Spc. Emely Nieves from the Puerto Rico Army National Guard guards her post over the Joint Task Force Guantanamo detention facility at sunrise. (Photo: The National Guard / Flickr) …
Ten Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything
(Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times) Before the Occupy Wall Street movement, there was little discussion of the outsized power of Wall Street and the …