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New York Senate Passes Temporary Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
Also See: Mike Ludwig | A Fracking War In a pre-dawn vote Wednesday, New York State's senate passed a bill that reaches beyond the debate over the environmental safety …
Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Now Campaigning in Afghanistan
SOROBI, Afghanistan — In a country whose young parliament is filled with warlords, suspected drug barons, one-time mujahedeen fighters and religious zealots, Izatullah Nasrat Yar can still make history. …
Federal Judge Rules California Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
In a sweeping and historic decision, a federal judge in San Francisco has announced that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. The ruling crushed several arguments posed by …
BP’s Cleaning Only Skims the Surface
More GRITtv “Anything BP does and doesn't do is to preserve their profits and their future ability to operate in the United States, no more, no less.” That's according …
Right Is Right, Wrong Is Discretionary
In the wake of the House Ethics Committee formerly charging Charles Rangel (D-NY) with thirteen ethics violations, another member of congress is poised to have an ethics trial in …
Flood Disaster Means Starting From Zero
Peshawar - “We swam the whole day to get hold of the elderly and women swept away by floodwaters,” recalled 27-year-old Shahid Ali of Charsadda district, one of the …
Property Rights and Public Accommodations
In the early sixties, the young black students in the South had had enough. Enough separate drinking fountains, enough all-night drives because no motel would provide a room, and …
How Will Future Economists View Today
Progressives have the opportunity to turn the tides in favor of the middle class, if they only have the guts to grasp it. When we observe today’s wounded economy, …
In Mexico, Poisonous Pesticides on the Doorstep
Zucar de Matamoros, Mexico - “People want to get rid of the factory. It has to go. There's already been an accident,” a taxi driver said on the drive …
GOP Kills Health Care for 9/11 Workers, Rails at “Ground Zero Mosque“
Last Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) launched into a righteous tirade against the GOP's attempts to derail a health care package for 9/11 first responders. His House floor antics …