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BP Facing Lawsuit Over Handling of Oil Spill Cleanup
A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against BP in a Louisiana state court alleging that the company's negligent actions led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and that BP was …
Fashion Victims: The Denim Industry
About 24 kilometres from the centre of Dhaka, in the gritty industrial suburb of Savar Upazila, down a narrow path, a small sign reads ‘Latest Washing and Blasting Industries.’ …
Here and There: Six Years in the Middle East
On September 11, 2001 Megan K. Stack, the 25-year-old Houston bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, was in Paris visiting her sister. After the terrorist attacks on that …
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | O.K., So Tea Party Members Aren’t “Racist” – They’re Just Prejudiced and Bigoted
On Tuesday, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on the party's leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist …
Military Judges Defy Congressionally Ordered Access to Guantanamo Proceedings
Ever-shifting rules, minders and a cloaked public record are some of the barriers Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg said await those hoping to cover the military commissions at Guantanamo …
A Fracking War: Industry Tries – and Fails – to Debunk “Gasland” Film
The information war over the natural gas drilling practice commonly called “fracking” is heating up as filmmaker Josh Fox responds to an industry attempt to debunk his hit film …
William A. Collins | We’ve Got Empire Stress Disorder
Keep those Stars And Stripes unfurled; Wave them high and Rule the world. It's a lot of work being an empire. Expensive, but well worth it. Americans make up …
Robert Scheer | The Grinches Who Stole Summer
It was a branding moment. With their lockstep vote against extending unemployment benefits, the Republicans are indelibly marked as not only heartless but also frivolous in their much-professed concern …
Joe Conason | Our Secret Leviathan
Back in the bad old days of the Cold War — when mutual nuclear annihilation was a policy option — a culture of secrecy arose in Washington. What wise …
Froma Harrop | “2010: A Space Odyssey” Updated
The most wrong assumption in the sci-fi movie classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” was that technology would liberate humans from a life of hassle. Made 42 years ago, Stanley …