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Oil Spill Gives Urgency to UN Oceans Meet
Paris - The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has given increased urgency to the fifth Global Oceans Conference taking place here at the United Nations Educational, …
Regulatory Failures Aided Financial Crisis, Paulson, Geithner to Tell FCIC Panel
Watch the hearing live on C-SPAN here. Washington - The inability of regulators and Congress to keep up with new products in financial markets helped trigger the nation's …
When Reform Is a Slippery Slope
Phoenix - “What's the matter with Arizona?” is the obvious question about the state's new immigration law. There are a few obvious answers — and a not-so-obvious one that …
What Do We Owe the Wrongfully Convicted?
On April 28th, 46-year-old Frank Sterling became a free man after spending 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Sterling was cleared of a 1988 murder …
David Ignatius: CIA’s Senior Apologist Strikes Again
David Ignatius, The Washington Post's self-appointed apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has struck again.
Glass Society: The Partitioning, Prisoning and Privatizing of Public Life
Those were the good days when a man had friends in distant clans. Your generation does not know that. You stay at home, arid of your next-door neighbor. - …
Now State Reaction to Illegal Immigrants Should Matter to African-Americans
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (SB 1070) the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.” SB 1070's stated …
Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds
San Francisco, California - Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have …
Tapping Into the Power of Your Own Stem Cells
Stem cells have been at the center of some of the bitterest controversies as well as some of the most promising medical discoveries, and yet little has been done …
Rep. Obey to Retire After 41 Years
Washington - Rep. David Obey, the chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he wouldn't seek re-election this year because he was “bone tired” …