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Half of Vets Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Need Medical Attention
(Photo: RunItsTheFuz / Flickr) More than half of America's former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with medical and mental problems that need treatment, according …
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Berkeley Activist Hit by Police Explains How Several UC Regents Profit from Higher Levels of Student Debt
Earlier today, OccupyCal protesters at the University of California Berkeley staged a mass “teach-in” and protest to stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, and to rebuke …
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A Rising Sea Threatens Pacific Islands
New York - As world leaders gear up to spend the coming weeks in South Africa haggling over economically bearable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already …
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Nicaragua’s Top Cop, Who Once Wanted to be a Nun, Fends Off Drug Gangs
Managua, Nicaragua - Even as drug gangs are taking control of wide swaths of other Central American countries, a gentle and unassuming 60-year-old grandmother appears to have held them …
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Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop
Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a decision …
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Many Americans Left Behind in the Quest for Cleaner Air
For all of her 62 years, Lois Dorsey has lived five blocks from a mass of petrochemical plants in Baton Rouge. She worries about the health of people in …
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Justices Scalia, Thomas Honored at Fundraiser Sponsored by Health Care Reform Opponents
A few hours after the Supreme Court justices met last Thursday, November 10, to consider hearing challenges to the national health care overhaul, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas …
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Arundhati Roy: Occupy Wall Street Is “So Important Because It Is in the Heart of Empire“
Renowned Indian writer and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is preparing to address Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday. She recently joined us in the studio to talk about the …
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Pentagon Whistleblower Suffered Years of Retaliation, OSC Says
A senior auditor with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) was subjected to years of reprisal in violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act after she blew the whistle on …
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Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on Occupy Movement
Embattled Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking in an interview with the BBC (excerpted on The Takeaway radio program–audio of Quan starts at the 5:30 mark), casually mentioned that she …