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Deal Reached on Contested Afghan Night Raids
101st Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47 Chinook helcopter door gunners survey the ground during a night flight June 26, 2009 in southern Afghanistan. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Sadie Bleistein) Kabul, Afghanistan …
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Shale Shocked: “Remarkable Increase” In U.S. Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmade“
A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team has found that a sharp jump in earthquakes in America's heartland appears to be linked to oil and natural gas drilling operations. As …
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JOBS Act: Something for Nothing?
President Barack Obama arrives to sign the JOBS Act in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 5, 2012. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York …
Let’s Ditch the Empty Suits as Politicians and Bring Back Real Fiscal Policy
America hasn't always had a Congress full of can't-do seat-warmers, small thinkers and penny pinchers determined to castrate the national government and let bankers and CEOs run the world. …
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Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit
Phoenix — Perhaps no law in the past generation has drawn more praise than the drive to “end welfare as we know it,” which joined the late-'90s economic boom …
Survivors Tell of Bloody Aftermath of Continued Fighting in Syria
Hatay, Turkey - Wounded Syrians being treated in hospitals here are providing detailed accounts of a bloody battle for the town of Taftanaz in northern Syria earlier this week …
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Poetry, Plasticity, Philosophical Activism
The formula, “99 percent,” seems at once incredibly rhetorical and real. We are used to hyperbole; we are less used to an absurdly lop-sided figure that is actually matched …
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The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure
(Photo: Mark Karlin) The Official Story From the US State Department On March 29, 2012, William R. Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics …
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Meet the ALEC Staffers Who Help Corporations Write Our Laws
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group you’ve never heard of. The group, sponsored by some of America’s largest corporations, writes legislation that …
Son of Frackenstein
In a few short years the term “fracking” went from obscurity, mostly mistaken for an obscenity, to a household word, now often associated with flammable tap water. The technology …