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Don’t Mess With Texas: Michael Bishop’s Battle Against TransCanada Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
The lawsuit asserts the Corps granted environmental permits to TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline illegally. It could be a short-lived victory for Bishop.
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Health Reform’s Problems Run Deeper Than a Glitchy Website
The causes of the websiteu2019s problems are far more serious than poor software design. They are baked into the law by its extreme complexity.
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GMOs Solve No Real Problems Best: The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
In line with the dogma of neoliberalism governments want agriculture to contribute as much wealth as any other industry towards the grand goal of u201ceconomic growth.u201d
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Rip-Off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor
The most pernicious myth in American politics holds that only around half the population pays taxes.
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How Can the States Provide Fourth Amendment Protection Against the NSA?
States have the authority to defy federal NSA surveillance policy, based on anticommandeering doctrine, and are being urged to do so by the civil liberties community.
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What Do We Treasure? A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger spoke at the opening of the exhibition
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The Confidence Fairy and Gnome, Debunked
Paul Krugman: Count me in as someone who believes that macroeconomics - at least of the Keynesian variety - has actually worked pretty well these past five years.
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India’s GOP Voiceless in the 2014 Elections
India's Grand Old Party is not naming its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections, nor touting its very real accomplishments while in power. Why?
School ™: Resist the Feed, Feed the Resistance
While many have commented on how accurate the 11-year old Feed is in its predictions of social networking and mobile technology, its dire predictions on the corporatization of education …
Now That Parades Have Ended
This is the reality of war, a reality that we know and those who make war try to hide; memories and knowledge that we have tried to forget, or …