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CYA for the CIA: The CIA’s Torture Research Program
Over the last year, there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” torture program, there was a related program experimenting with …
Feds Knew of Gulf Spill Risks in 2000, Document Shows
Washington - A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and …
I Come to Praise Helen Thomas, Not to Bury Her
I am not going to try and defend the comments Helen Thomas made about getting the Jews out of Palestine and sending them to Germany and Poland; that was …
Primary Results Show Battle Ahead for Incumbents
In the primary results Wednesday, three high-profile legislator bypassed the predicted anti-incumbent rage in what may mark a turning point in the midterm campaign season. On the Republican …
Congress Calls BP’s Hayward to Testify
Fifty-one days after oil began gushing out of the ocean floor and into the Gulf of Mexico, Congress has extended a request that, in political parlance, is more of …
What’s Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement?
Many advocates of nuclear disarmament felt considerable elation at the election of Barack Obama in 2008. In the previous years, the Bush administration had scrapped the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, …
News in Brief: Union Carbide Officials Sentenced to Prison in Bhupol and More
A court in Bhupol, India sentenced seven Union Carbide officials to two years in prison for criminal negligence surrounding a 1984 pesticide plant leak that killed 3,500 people instantly …
Retired General: “We Have to Accept the Fact That We Did Torture People” (Video)
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Airlines Battle Workplace Democracy
If you ever want to spook a smug, stuffed-shirt corporate CEO — I mean spook him so bad that he jumps clear out of his Guccis and screams louder …
Rhythm Method Madness
Seventeen percent of sexually active teenage girls said they used the rhythm method as a means of birth control in 2008, up from just 11% in 2002, according to …