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It's a go. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva just signed an agreement to build the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River. It will be large: 3.75 …

Republicans Stay Quiet While Others Speak Up About Koran Burning According to Think Progress, top Republicans have remained silent on the plan by a Florida church to burn Korans …

As a botanical illustrator, Wendy Hollender is accustomed to working everywhere, from sultry tropical jungles to dusty hillsides knee-deep in grass. In 2008, in search of rare plant subjects, …

This week’s proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than …

The Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club is pushing state regulators to investigate two factory farms and a feed mill linked to this summer's massive recall of salmonella-tainted eggs, …

Now that the Iraq war is supposedly winding down, America needs a period of reflection, repentance and atonement before rushing into more of the same mistakes we've been making …

In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq war that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush …

In a scene from my first book, “Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S.” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006), I discuss how Brazil became an ally of Venezuela during …

Washington - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will propose $300 billion in accelerated or expanded tax breaks for business, a jolt of cash that he says would jump-start hiring …