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WikiLeaks: Africa Offers Easy Uranium
Paris - Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs …
News in Brief: WikiLeaks Shows DEA Has Global Reach, and More …
WikiLeaks Shows DEA Has Global Reach
Coordinated Bombings Kill at Least 14 in Iraq’s Anbar Province
Fallujah, Iraq - Suicide bombers struck outside government offices in western Iraq on Monday morning, killing 14 people and wounding dozens in a pair of attacks that were the …
Ten Most Hopeful Stories of 2010
There was plenty of disappointment and hardship this year. But the year also brought opportunities for transformation. It was a tough year. The economy continued its so-called jobless recovery …
Top Ten Ways the Right Will Wreck the Recovery
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's …
Thom Hartmann | Cool Our Fever
We live in a democracy and policies represent our collective will. We cannot blame others. If we allow the planet to pass tipping points...it will be hard to explain …
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State and City Budget Crisis: Causes and Solutions (Video)
Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the …
NATO Challenged Over Kabul Raid That Killed Two Guards
Kabul, Afghanistan - The international Special Forces military team that targeted a Kabul office complex on Christmas Eve day thought they were thwarting a holiday season plot to bomb …
Mexico Buys Corn Futures to Ensure Tortilla Prices Remain Flat
Mexico City - In 2007, massive impromptu street protests threatened the popularity of Mexican President Felipe Calderón. But it was not drug violence or kidnappings that prompted the outcry. …