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Fracking at Drinking Water Source for 80,000 Pennsylvanians Raises Alarms
Cynthia Walter, an ecologist at St. Vincent College outside Pittsburgh, gets a lot of emails from local wildlife enthusiasts asking about "this bird" or "that amphibian." But …
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Could Wall Street Ever Face a “Murdoch Moment”?
History books record an empire's fall as a series of dates and events. Battles are fought, people resist, elections are called, arrest warrants are issued. But those are just …
Jeremy Scahill | Coalition of the Billing
Coalition of the Billing: An Interview with Jeremy Scahill from Cultures of Resistance on Vimeo.
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Middle-Man and the Debt Ceiling Debacle!
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Gender Politics, Evangelical Edition
Washington - I didn't want to write a column about Michele Bachmann but my husband told me to. Naturally, I listened. Not! Poor man, he …
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A Right-Wing Jobs Program for America
Here's the core economic problem we're facing today: Unemployment and underemployment are rampant and entrenched throughout America, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening the very survival of …
Gang of Six Plan Gives Tax Breaks for Wealthy, Social Security Cuts for Ordinary Workers
Washington, D.C.- The budget plan produced by the Senate’s “Gang of Six” offers the promise of huge tax breaks for some of the wealthiest people in the country, while …
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Hawk Nation: A Guide to the Catastrophic Debt Ceiling Debate
News reports hold that President Obama scored a political victory by agreeing to put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block to achieve a "go-big" $4 trillion deficit …
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A British Spring?
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to hold an emergency session of Parliament on Wednesday to discuss the growing phone-hacking scandal that has threatened Rupert Murdoch’s media …
I Love the Smell of Murdoch in the Morning
The hearings were broadcast by every major news channel, but for something like this, only one would do: Fox.