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US Nuclear Industry Will Remain Ward of the State, as in France, Report Warns
Report wary of “French model of nuclear socialism,” and calls $36 billion of federal loan guarantees a raw deal for taxpayers. Government subsidies of nuclear power plans could hitch …
Iraq Suffers Deadliest Day Since US Drawdown
Baghdad - A string of bombings killed 37 people Sunday in Iraq's deadliest day since Aug. 31, when President Barack Obama said the U.S. military's seven-year-old combat mission there …
The Rapture of It All
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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 …