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US States Consider Starting Their Own Banks
Atlanta, Georgia - At least eight U.S. states are considering proposals to start state-run banks in the wake of an economic crisis where many private banks ceased or greatly …
Collateralized Fish Obligations?
A program promoted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environmental Defense Fund aims to address overfishing, but will small fishermen get squeezed out of the process? Multiple …
Red State Road Trip 2: The Nuclear Family (Video – Part V)
Meet Don and Charlene, an all American couple who live inside a nuclear missile silo. Find out why this Nebraska pair live underground with enough supplies to survive for …
“Sympathy for the Devil“
After word broke that federal inspectors had uncovered dozens of new, critical safety violations by Massey Energy in the days following an explosion that killed 29 of its miners, …
An Invaluable Protector of Working People
Never has there been a greater champion of US workers than former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24 at 98. Certainly, in more than a half-century …
May Day Rallies Take Immigration Fight to the Streets
From Los Angeles to New York, Chicago to Houston, hundreds of thousands of protesters in dozens of cities are marching, chanting, and in some cases engaging in civil disobedience …
Omar Khadr’s Trial Continues; Interrogation Video Introduced
Guantanamo Bay Navy Base, Cuba - An Army Special Forces officer testified Saturday that he altered a field report to directly implicate a Canadian detainee now being held at …
WorldStove: Transforming Haiti and the World
WorldStove founder Nathaniel Mulcahy has just completed two months of work in Haiti, setting up a pilot project that will provide biochar-producing stoves and jobs for the Haitian people. …
Chemicals Meant To Break Up BP Oil Spill Present New Environmental Concerns
The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of …
Bill Moyers: Interview With Jim Hightower
This is a transcript of a segment of the final program for The Bill Moyers Journal, aired on Friday, April 30, 2010. Bill Moyers interviews journalist Jim Hightower …