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Michael T. Klare | China: Twenty-First Century Energy Superpower
If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China. That’s the news for our energy future …
Brave (Old) New World: UPMC Braddock and the Rise of Class-Based Health Care
A western Pennsylvania post-steel town like many others, Braddock has become relatively famous for at least two reasons: first, the famed documentarian Tony Buba, who still lives in Braddock …
Keep Truthout Kicking!
Before I became a Truthout intern, I got most of my news from mainstream newspapers and websites. You know, the same groups that originally promoted the wars in Afghanistan …
US Contractor Accused of Fraud Still Winning Big Afghan Projects
Washington - On July 31, 2006, an employee of the Louis Berger Group, a contractor handling some of the most important U.S. rebuilding projects in Afghanistan, handed federal investigators …
Christine O
Before she stole the hearts of tea party activists, Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell was best known for her regular and bizarre punditry on 22 different episodes of …
Lawsuit Asks if Science Was Manipulated in BP Oil Spill Estimates
WASHINGTON — An environmental whistleblower group charges in a lawsuit that the Obama administration is withholding documents that would reveal why it issued an estimate on the gravity of …
Hypatia and the Clash of Civilizations in Late Antiquity
When the Greeks spoke of “agora,” they meant a place for political discussion, jury trials, and a market. In other words, agora was the center of Greek life. In …
Amid Violence, Afghans Vote
KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite scattered rocket attacks, kidnappings, and explosions, there was a tangible holiday feel in the air as polls opened Saturday morning in the Afghan capital. Shops …
University Group Raises Concerns About BP Oil Spill Contaminants in Livestock Feed
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Perdido Bay Mullet Festival in Lillian, Alabama had to do something it's never had to do before — substitute catfish for mullet. Why? …
Congress is Back, But Until November 2, It’s All About Elections
WASHINGTON — Congress will use its few remaining weeks in session before the Nov. 2 elections to debate and vote on issues that are less about legislating than they …