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Disabled Oil Rig Alarm Points to Human Failures in Gulf Oil Disaster
As investigators probe the Deepwater Horizon oil rig accident, it's becoming clearer that human decisions regarding key safety equipment were part of the nation's largest oil spill.

Climate: Controlled
Geoengineering Threatens to Save the Planet from Global Warming

How Breitbart Won and Why We Must Rethink “Racism“
We've trod a familiar path in the past week. It started with credulous acceptance of Andrew Breitbart's latest round of lies, moved to the subsequent debate about who's a …

Are iPads, Smartphones and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?
It took an offer to appear on a national TV show for Wade Warren to reluctantly give up what he calls his “technology” for a week. That was the …

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Grisly Mass Graves in Mexico Yield 50 Casualties of Drug War
Mexico City - The number of bodies pulled from mass graves in a rocky field outside the northern city of Monterrey rose to 50 Saturday, authorities said, marking one …

Anger Rises Over US Tax Dollars for Settlements
Ramallah - Anger has arisen in Palestinian areas over reports that millions of tax-exempt dollars from the U.S. are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the Palestinian …

Why Are We Still Funding Abstinence-Only Programming?
It seems you can't keep a bad idea down. Even though the Obama administration has pledged that science will finally trump ideology when it comes to global AIDS prevention, …

Will House Democrats Oppose a Jobless War Supplemental?
The war supplemental for Afghanistan is expected to come back from the Senate to the House this week - without any kind of timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan, …

Liberals Press Obama for More Action on Key Issues
Las Vegas, Nev. - President Barack Obama Saturday tried to calm liberals frustrated by what they consider slow progress on their favorite causes, urging Democratic bloggers and activists to …