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A nuclear test is detonated on the Enewetak Atoll, a segment of the Marshall Islands, on November 15, 1952. (Photo: United States Department of Energy) When the …

(Photo: ion-bogdan dumitrescu / Flickr) Kabul, Afghanistan - The United States, on the verge of shutting down its own government for lack of funds, just forked over …

The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. A federal development program intended to help poor communities, the New Market Tax Credit, instead funnels up to ten billion taxpayer dollars to big …

The third week of February, attorneys from New Orleans-based and national organizations brought a federal civil rights complaint against Louisiana's 205-year-old "crime against nature" statute, a law designed to …

David Koch, a billionaire known for his contributions to conservative causes. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from …

For years, “not in my backyard” has been the battle cry of residents in Cape Cod who stand opposed to an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The …

(Photo: NOAA/NASA GOES Project; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a …

In a provocative demonstration against the tar sands, clean energy advocates poured "oil" onto a female model draped with the Canadian flag on Parliament Hill. Those pouring the oil …

UK Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during the Special Address at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 28, 2011. (Photo: Moritz …

“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and …