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Bill Moyers Journal | The Stranglehold of Money on Politics
PBS Airtime: Friday, January 8, 2010, at 9 PM EST on PBS (check local listings at https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).
Meltdown, USA: Nuclear Drive Trumps Safety Risks and High Cost
The pro-nuclear Department of Energy is set to offer this month the first of nearly $20 billion in loan guarantees to a nuclear industry that hasn't built a plant …
US Convoy’s Driving Questioned in Wreck That Killed Iraqis
Hillah, Iraq - Dazed and blood-spattered, an Iraqi woman stumbled among the bodies of her relatives Wednesday on a strip of highway south of Baghdad where a U.S. military …
Insider: Palin Failed to Lead on Oil and Gas Safety in Alaska
There have been several recent oil spills and other environmental problems linked to the oil/gas production industry in Alaska. On December 23, a tugboat hit the Bligh Reef, the …
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The pro-nuclear Department of Energy is set to offer this month the first of nearly $20 billion in loan guarantees to a nuclear industry that hasn't built a plant …
Abandoning EFCA Is Obama’s Political Suicide: Lessons From Three Presidents on Workers’ Rights
Whatever happened to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)? Is it dead? I remember sitting in a meeting last May with Senate staff who said that after Al …
Girding Our Loins for the Global War on Underwear
There was a time when errant children were made to stand in corners and reflect on their misdeeds. We are made to stand in lines, in our stocking feet, …
Three French Views of the Christmas Attempt and Its Aftermath
The attempted attack on a Northwest Airlines plane has reignited an American anachronism that we believed extinguished: the Axis of Evil. Barack Obama's election, then his attempts to exit …
Counterterrorism in Shambles – Why?
Yesterday, a blogger with the PBS’ NewsHour asked former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to respond to three questions regarding recent events involving the CIA, FBI, and the intelligence community …
Sen. Christopher Dodd, (D-Connecticut), is expected to hold a news conference Wednesday in his home state to announce that he won’t seek reelection for a sixth term, according to news reports. Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who was the principal author of legislation that bailed out foundering Wall Street banks to the tune of $700 billion, will become the second Democratic senator in the past 24 hours to announce his retirement.
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