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Thanks to Climate Cranks, US Losing Clean Energy Race to China
President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao touched on energy issues in the bilateral summit between the two countries this week.
Conflict, Fantasy and Frances Fox Piven in American Life
Glenn Beck and many other right-wing commentators have identified two academics, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, as the masterminds of the impending socialist takeover of the United States. …
“Miami Rice”: The Business of Disaster in Haiti
As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with gunfire and the smoke of burning tires. Towns throughout the country and the national airport are shut down due to …
Verizon Sues FCC to Overturn Order on Blocking Web Sites
Washington - Less than a month after the Federal Communications Commission adopted an order aimed at keeping Internet service providers from blocking access to certain Web content or applications, …
Europeans Freeze Assets Linked to Deposed Tunisian President; What About US?
Last Friday, popular protests over unemployment and corruption forced Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to resign after 23 years in power. A Tunisian prosecutor has opened an investigation …
Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA Acknowledges a Hand in One Mass Bird Death
Atlanta - It's not the “aflockalyptic” fallout from a secret US weapon lab as some have theorized.
Mississippi State Senate Passes Anti-Immigration Law
There’s a new SB 1070 on the block, and this one comes out of Mississippi. On Tuesday the Mississippi State Senate passed SB 2179, a measure that allows law …
Joe Conason | Fudging the Facts on Health Care and Deficits
Facts always matter, but never more so than when politicians deal with issues of real consequence, like health care and budget deficits. Data sets and out-year projections may make …
Arizona Legislature Seeks to Nullify International Laws
Last week I wrote that after the cameras left Tucson, the Arizona hate that is focused on Mexicans/migrants – on brown peoples, which is about 95% of all the …
Dave Lindorff | Don’t Tone It Down, Amp It Up: In Praise of Incivility in Politics
“The wranglers over creeds and dogmas are perhaps the most persistent of all agitators; the bedrock idea being that a wrong exists which must be found and exterminated.” — …