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Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., …
In Nod to Latino Voters, Obama Makes Historic Visit to Puerto Rico Ahead of 2012 Elections
More Bucks, Less Bang (Part II): Can We Give Some Power Back to the DoD Oversight Personnel?
(Image: JR / Truthout) This column is a follow-up to my column last week about testing of our weapons and how the Department of Defense (DoD) system …
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Judge Rejects Conservative Activists’ Case Against Proposition 8
Supporters of the effort to repeal Prop 8 gather in front of the Phillip J. Burton Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on June 16, 2010. Chief District Judge James …
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Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Washington - Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the …
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Vermont Leads the Way
“We have a problem,” said House Speaker Shap Smith of Vermont. “We need to solve it.” This comment reflects a no-nonsense, hands-on, can-do attitude you rarely find …
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Stricter Regulation of Formaldehyde Remains Uncertain Despite Carcinogen Ruling
Family members outside their FEMA trailer. Trailers supplied by FEMA to Katrina survivors were found to have harmful levels of formaldehyde in them. Last week, the Department of Health …
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The Politician’s Penis
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America Needs Taxes
What do USAA, CVS Caremark, Costco, UnitedHealth Group and Berkshire Hathaway all have in common?
Ralph Nader: Koch Brothers Led Fight to Defend Formaldehyde Despite Carcinogenic Evidence (2)
Read the transcript, here.