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Panel: BP Well Blowout Revealed Industry-Wide Problems
Washington - The errors and misjudgments that led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig last spring weren't the result just of blunders by BP …
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Army’s “Spiritual Fitness” Test Comes Under Fire
(Image: US Army) An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration’s torture program …
Army’s “Spiritual Fitness” Test Comes Under Fire
Test Was Designed by Psychologist Who Inspired CIA's Torture Program An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of …
Solution: Cut Costs of Radioactive Waste Stabilization Programs Through Competition
This week's Solution's column examines a very important but overlooked and permanent problem of dealing with our nuclear waste, waste that we have manufactured in the past and waste …
Solution: Cut Costs of Radioactive Waste Stabilization Programs Through Competition
Solution to Deal With the Department of Energy's Radioactive Waste Stabilization Programs: Open Them to Competition By Greg Williams, Edited by Dina Rasor From the White House Blog in …
Peak Oil and a Changing Climate: An Introduction (Video)
The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But …
2011: Jobs Versus The Deficit
The roadmaps showing the way out of our 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit almost always begin at the same starting points. During 2010, it became taken-for-granted that today's record-setting …
Boehner Pleads for Civility as New Congress Convenes
Washington - Ohio Rep. John Boehner is to become Speaker of the House Wednesday afternoon, and plans to set a conciliatory tone by telling the nation “The American people …
Juan Cole | Wrong Again, Senator Graham
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., repeated on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday his hope that the United States can maintain at least two permanent air bases in Afghanistan. He …
First, Your Shoes; Next, Your DNA
Elliot Cohen's reputation for prescient reporting precedes his new book, “Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project.” In 2007, years before today's comparatively widespread coverage of …