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Big Oil Refuses to Negotiate Safety Bargain With Union Despite Deadly Accidents
The United Steel Workers (USW) union announced Tuesday an attempt to reopen safety negotiations with the oil industry as tempers rage over a string of deadly explosions at oil …
When the Police Control the Press
The Serbian soldier blocking the bridge cradled his AK-47 assault rifle as he delivered a ruling that brooked no argument: You cannot cross the river. Not today. We implored …
George Lakoff | Disaster Messaging
Democrats are constantly resorting to disaster messaging. Here's a description of the typical situation: The Republicans out-message the Democrats. The Democrats, having no effective response, …
Oil Containment Effort Facing Two Key Moments
Washington - The battle to contain BP's massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is approaching two critical junctures in coming days that could affect how …
Hope and Change Fade, but War Endures
If one quality characterizes our wars today, it’s their endurance. They never seem to end. Though war itself may not be an American inevitability, these days many factors combine …
Questions for West Point and US
Shortly after the occasion of Independence Day, I want to report on going to West Point on June 28, 2001, with six colleagues to raise questions for incoming cadets …
Iraq Bombers Kill 12 in Baghdad on Last Day of Shiite Pilgrimage
Bombs killed at least 12 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the final day of a Shiite religious festival that brought as many as 1 million pilgrims to the capital …
Dying-In to End the Wars
On February 22, 2010, Chris Gaunt began conducting a weekly sit-in at the local offices of her US Senators, Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin, in Des Moines, Iowa, urging …
Geithner and Summers: Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment
It's not working. Time for the president to concede that the economy is at best stagnating and at worst about to take another steep nosedive. I don't know if …
BP Oil Spill: Relief Well Is Ahead of Schedule, Close to Target
Drilling for a relief well that could finally stop the BP oil spill is a few hundred feet from its target. But it will take until mid-August, officials say, …