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BP Is Messing With the Wrong Woman (3)
A year ago BP began filling the Gulf of Mexico with oil. Last week BP blocked a woman from entering its annual meeting. Which will …
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President of Yemen Agrees to Resign for Immunity
(Photo: AJTalkEng / Flickr) Cairo - Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, agreed on Saturday to leave power after 32 years of autocratic rule, according to a top …
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More Western Banking Will Not Help the Mediterranean Pro-Democracy Struggle
(Photo: makeroadssafe / Flickr) Writing for the Washington Post on March 10, 2011, David Ignatius reported that “White House officials like” the idea of the European Bank …
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Japanese Revisit Nuclear Zone While They Can
Okuma, Japan - Residents who lived near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant flocked to the area on Thursday ahead of a midnight evacuation deadline imposed by the …
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Pay Up Now, Corporations: We’re Organized, Aware of Your Tax Havens and Ready to Boycott
(Photo: Steve Rhodes / Flickr) PayUpNow.org is an online effort to “uncut” the cutbacks by promoting boycotts of corporations who pay little or no federal income tax. …
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Starship Amerika
President Barack Obama is actually siding with police who want to use GPS devices to track you without a warrant. It always disturbed me when on “Star Trek” the …
A Curious Case of Elusive Extradition
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: Viswaakshan Iyer / Flickr) Is it a strange case of human rights versus a “strategic partnership”? Is the much-touted special relationship …
Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement is Changing the Game
The 10,000 young people who gathered in Washington, DC, for the third Power Shift came prepared to get things done. They traveled in groups from campuses, high schools, and …
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Congress: Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks
(Photo: Kevin Burkett / Flickr) Remember that scene in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” when Jimmy Stewart arrives in the capital for the first time? The freshman …
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Syrian Security Forces Fire on Mourners in Several Towns
(Photo: anjci / Flickr) Beirut, Lebanon - Syrian security forces fired their weapons into crowds of mourners in at least three towns on Saturday, as tens of …