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After Peak Oil, Are We Heading Toward Social Collapse?
Recently, Glen Sweetnam, director of the International, Economic and Greenhouse Gas division of the Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy (DOE), announced that worldwide oil availability had …
Henry A. Giroux | In Defense of Teachers (Video)
Porter Chair Lecture Eastern Michigan Universitry April 8, 2010 ALSO SEE: Henry A. Giroux | In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
Report Concludes That Thousands of Gulf War Veterans Have “Multi-Symptom Illness“
As many as 250,000 veterans of the first Gulf War have ongoing, unexplained medical symptoms, according to a recent report on physical complaints known as Gulf War syndrome. The …
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman Sachs & Co. and one of its executives with fraud today in a risky offshore deal backed by subprime mortgages that cost …
Emerging Powers Eager to Get Down to Business
Rio De Janeiro - Behind every initiative to form an association of nations, there are “strong economic and commercial interests,” said Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim. Members of …
Senators Call For Changes to Troubled, Costly Afghan Police Training Program
State and Defense department officials took a tongue-lashing today, trying to explain to a Senate subcommittee how the government has poured $6 billion since 2002 into building an effective …
Tennessee Cleanup Sends Coal Ash, Anxiety to Alabama Site
Uniontown, Ala. — When the mound of wet coal ash began to rise in the landfill across the road from her pretty yellow house with the peonies and roses …
Conyers Calls For Firing of FBI Officials
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) has called for the FBI to fire agency officials who violated privacy laws and wrongfully obtained the telephone records of individuals by …
The Game That Goes on and on: A Swiss Bank, a President and the Permanent Government
A little-noted presidential golf outing opens the door to an intrigue-filled world of financiers, murky international interests, money-laundering, tax evasion, and politics as not-so-usual.
Frontline Fronts for Corporations, Not the Public
It was with a sense of deja vu that I watched the latest Frontline documentary about health care. “Obama's Deal” endeavored to reveal the significant influence of health industry …