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A Year After BP Blowout, Gulf Lawmakers Say Drill
Washington - A year after the BP oil spill put the brakes on full-bore domestic production, it's back to “drill, baby, drill” as federal lawmakers, anxious about rising gasoline …
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Fracking Blowout Causes Massive Spill in Pennsylvania
Thousands of gallons of potentially toxic hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” liquids spilled across pastures and into a stream in rural Pennsylvania early this morning, after a natural gas well …
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Guantanamo Psychologist Led Rendition and Imprisonment of Afghan Boys, Complaint Charges
Leg shackles in a classroom at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are photographed on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) …
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Syrian Forces Open Fire on Protesters, Killing Three and Arresting Many
Reporting from Beirut - At least three people were killed and a large number were arrested early Tuesday after Syrian security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters in Homs, …
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BP’s Secret Deepwater Blowout
Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. (Courtesy of Greg Palast) Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout …
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Top “US” Corporations Outsourced More Than 2.4 Million American Jobs Over the Last Decade
A Washington Post/ABC News poll released this morning finds that 44 percent, a plurality, of Americans think the economy is getting worse, rather than staying the same or getting better. …
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In the Dark Over Murder of Peace Activists
Ramallah - Palestinians are reeling from the double-murder of two pro-Palestinian peace activists over the last few weeks, one in the West Bank and one in Gaza, with many …
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Meet the Nuclear Gypsies
If you read our other piece about Japanese nuclear workers, and even if you didn't, you will find this of interest. It's from the Los Angeles Times, and was …
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Scott Walker Admits Union-Busting Provision “Doesn’t Save Any” Money for the State of Wisconsin
Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform called Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) and Peter Shumlin (D-VT) to testify in a hearing titled "State and Municipal Debt: Tough …
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News in Brief: Syrian Security Forces Open Fire on, and Kill, Peaceful Protesters, and More
Syrian Security Forces Open Fire on, and Kill, Peaceful Protesters The Los Angeles Times reports that, in the past three days, nearly 25 peaceful protesters have been …