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It’s not enough that Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder took away basic democratic rights of cities and towns by imposing a “financial martial law” that can virtually abolish a …

Demonstrators on the American boat, “The Audacity of Hope,” which plans to be part of the international flotilla to Gaza, at a port near Athens, Greece, June 30, 2011. …

With Osama bin Laden dead, can the United States finally bring an end to the Afghan War, its longest-lasting foreign military conflict? It's an obvious question, since the invasion …

During the negotiations regarding raising the nation’s debt ceiling, congressional Republicans have gone to the mat to defend all manner of unwarranted tax breaks, including those for oil companies …

Michelle Bachman speaks at a Tea Party Rally in Washinton DC, March 31, 2011. (Photo: markn3tel) Travel, they say, improves the mind, a notion once rightly castigated …

Japan's leading business journal “Toyo Keizai” has published an article by Hokkaido Cancer Center director Nishio Masamichi, a radiation treatment specialist. The piece, entitled "The Problem of Radiation Exposure …

A view of the Goldman Sachs building at 200 West street in New York, April, 18, 2010. Last year Goldman Sachs spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the …

Paul Jackson, director of operations, right, talks with a miner inside Teco Energy's E3-1 coal mine in Hazard, Ky., on April 14, 2010. Investigations into the Upper Big Branch …

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US media coverage of the nuclear disaster in Japan contains vanishingly little serious discussion of the human health risks posed by the radiation escaping from the Fukushima nuclear facility. …