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Afghanistan War: US Troops, Afghan Politician Targeted in Deadly Weekend
Seven US soldiers were killed Saturday and Sunday in Afghanistan, in a violent weekend that deepened concerns about security ahead of September elections. A senior Afghan official also raised …
The Fate of New Orleans Hangs in an Uncomfortable Balance With Mother Nature
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the havoc Mother Nature can play on a modern city. It also brought to light the way our concerns about economics can compromise people's safety when …
Reinventing Paradise 2.0 – A Video Essay on New Orleans
As America faces the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina - for those who lived through it, the scale and complexity of the disaster remain beyond words. Living it is …
Despite “All Clear,” Mississippi Sound Tests Positive for Oil
The State of Mississippi's Department of Marine Resources (DMR) opened all of its territorial waters to fishing on August 6. This was done in coordination with the National Oceanic …
Pachamama and Progress: Conflicting Visions for Latin America’s Future
Miners in Potosí, Bolivia set off sticks of dynamite as cold winter winds zipped through the city, passing street barricades, protests, hunger strikers and an occupied electrical plant. These …
Martin Luther King, Jr. | I Have a Dream (Video)
Body Scanners in Courtroom, on Street, Continue to Raise Privacy Concerns
Despite previous assurances by federal agencies that images from body scanners were not saved or recorded, fears of indiscriminate scanner use rise as the US Marshal Service admits that …
Hawks Box in Obama on Afghan War
Just back from Afghanistan, Marine Commandant, Gen. James Conway held a news conference to add his voice to the Pentagon campaign to disparage the July 2011 date President Barack …
Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis
Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. Faced with increasing difficulty in selling …
Our Weird and Wanton Wars
Many citizens in Britain are puzzled. Why do we always seem to be at war? How can this come about? What does it mean? At the same time, we …