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The Straits of America
New York - Macroeconomic indicators for the United States have been better than expected for the last few months. Job creation has picked up. Indicators for manufacturing and services …
New Bill Would Put Taxpayer-Funded Science Behind Pay Walls
Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the …
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Why Development Aid Is Not Enough
Oslo - Poverty is not only about not having enough money. It is also about exploitation and oppression, and about armed conflicts and wars that make it impossible to …
Fukushima’s Owner Adds Insult to Injury – Claims Radioactive Fallout Isn’t Theirs
In the amoral milieu of the corporate bottom line, you can't blame Tokyo Electric Power Co. for trying. Tepco owns the six-reactor Fukushima complex that was wrecked …
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“Memory Is the Active Agent of Collective Social Progress”: Randall Robinson on His New Novel, “Makeda“
“Makeda,” the new novel by TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, is set at the dawn of the civil rights era. The book follows a young man coming of age in …
Leaderless Global Governance
(Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) Cambridge - The world economy is entering a new phase, in which achieving global cooperation will become …
The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What 70 Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War
A member of the 214th Reconnaissance Group flies a Predator aircraft drone in support of ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson, March 10, …
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Romney’s Bain Made Millions as South Carolina Steelmaker Went Bankrupt
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Boston-based Bain Capital LLC more than doubled its money on GS Industries Inc. — the former parent company of Georgetown Steel — under Mitt …
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“Stop Romney” Christian Conservatives Decide to Back Santorum
Columbia, South Carolina - With this state's Republican presidential primary a week away, former Sen. Rick Santorum on Saturday received the endorsement of 150 influential Christian conservative leaders who …
“Memory is the Active Agent of Collective Social Progress”: Randall Robinson on His New Novel Makeda (2)
“Makeda,” the new novel by TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, is set at the dawn of the civil rights era. The book follows a young man coming of age in …