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Why Iceland Voted “No“
About 75% of Iceland's voters turned out on Saturday to reject the Social Democratic-Green government's proposal to pay $5.2 billion to the British and Dutch bank insurance agencies for …

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Tokyo Power to Compensate 50,000 Evacuees
Tokyo - The Tokyo Electric Power Company announced plans on Friday to distribute 50 billion yen, or $600 million, in initial payments to 50,000 people evacuated because of the …

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Senator DeMint Demands Constitution Be Changed to Ban Federal Debt
Washington - Sen. Jim DeMint, who has wrought chaos in Congress over earmarks, immigration and health care, is preparing to launch a crusade that would make those fights look …

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News in Brief: More Rainwater Tests Positive for Radiation From Japan, and More
More Rainwater Tests Positive for Radiation From Japan

Connecting the Dots of the GOP Assault on Women
At a time when women in other countries like those in newly liberated Egypt, for example, are rising up to demand their rights, we women here in the United …

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My Medicare Deficit Solution
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) David Brooks, perhaps realizing that it was a bad idea to swallow a politician’s PR bullet points whole, is now backpedaling. The …

Did Sarkozy Set Up Obama’s Benghazi Nightmare?
Even as Barack Obama struggles to reduce America's public role in the Libyan conflict, he and his supporters continue to defend the UN military intervention as necessary to stop …

Radioactive Human Embryos: Our Nuclear Legacy?
(Photo: Kingray) We're now entering a more disturbing chapter of the nuclear disaster in Japan. Radiation is being detected in the atmosphere, rain water and food chain …

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For Alan Greenspan, Redemption, and Wisdom, Remain Elusive
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) Some people have asked me for reactions to a piece by Alan Greenspan …

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US Nuclear Regulator Lets Industry Help With the Fine Print
In the fall of 2001, inspectors with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were so concerned about possible corrosion at Ohio's Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station that they prepared an emergency …