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Gulf Oil Spill: Questions Unanswered, Residents Try Legal Action
New Orleans - In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, rig operator BP has produced apologies, jobs for local fishermen to aid in the recovery efforts, and a …
Robert Reich | The (Almost) Crash of Wall Street
Ninety minutes before the end of the trading day today, the U.S. stock market almost melted down The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 1,000 points. The market regained …
Mystery Disease Linked to Missing Israeli Scientist
Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least six …
Strengthening the Link Between Pollution, Cancer
Presidential advisory group moves to broaden focus of cancer research to precaution, prevention. A new report from a presidential advisory group represents a major advance in the struggle to …
Strengthening the Link Between Pollution, Cancer (2)
Presidential advisory group moves to broaden focus of cancer research to precaution, prevention. A new report from a presidential advisory group represents a major advance in the struggle to …
Was the Gulf Oil Spill an Act of War? You Betcha
Speculation has been running rampant among certain sectors of the web world lately about the true origins of the massive oil spill that has engulfed the Gulf and threatens …
Globalization: The Idiocy of Interdependency
Were there no European union there would be no Greek crisis beyond Greece, Greece would have retained its currency and paid its price for budget problems in the value …
Globalization: The Idiocy of Interdependency (2)
Were there no European union there would be no Greek crisis beyond Greece, Greece would have retained its currency and paid its price for budget problems in the value …
David Sirota | “I Want My Country Back”: The Motto of Mad Men
For most of us, conjuring concise and cogent catchphrases is nearly impossible. In fact, the skill can seem like the black magic of mystical mad men.
News in Brief: US Adds Jobs as Markets Look Unstable and More
Jobs numbers released this morning indicate that the US added 290,000 jobs in April, but the unemployment rate rose slightly to 9.9 percent as previously discouraged unemployed people began …