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Washington - President Obama ordered Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi on Friday to implement a cease-fire immediately and stop all attacks on Libyan civilians or face military action from the United …

Translated Wednesday 16 March 2011, by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Henry Crapo. Profit at any price. This could be the motto of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the multinational …

[Author's note: With the defeat of US climate legislation, the stalling of international climate negotiations, and the rise of tea party climate denialism, is climate protection doomed? This piece …

In the Greek town of Aphidal, people have stopped paying road fees. In Athens, bus and metro riders are refusing to cough up the price of a ticket. On …

Lurking in a proposed mortgage fraud settlement with the state attorneys general is a clause that could be worth billions for the big banks.

What follows is clearly not a thoroughly articulated perspective, but a call to others to present their own understanding of the situation we face. Those of us who …

Faced with the nuclear crisis in Japan, governments around the world are confronting the vulnerabilities of their nuclear energy programs. And while some European countries, such as Germany and …

Common Cause intensified its scrutiny of the U.S. Supreme Court today, asking the Court's Clerk and the Supreme Court Police to produce copies of the travel records of two …

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said that states are the “laboratories of democracy.” Oft repeated over time, the aphorism has helped impart legitimacy to the rough and tumble …

Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of deepening catastrophe at Fukushima 1, speed to the pharmacy to buy iodine and ask, “It's happened there; can it happen here?” Along …