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Ex-CIA Analyst on Snowden and Calling Journalists Terrorists
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Ray McGovern comments on the British Gov. calling journalist Glen Greenwald's partner a terrorist and on awarding Edward Snowden the Sam Adams …
Drones Have Come Out of the Shadows
New films, reports and media coverage are finally giving the American public a taste of the personal tragedies involved with drone strikes.
An Open Letter to the Climate Justice Movement
Robin Hahnel makes a plea to the environmental movement as she writes that they are “ making a serious strategic mistake by categorically rejecting international carbon trading.”
America’s Tar Baby
The idea of using nuclear power in the tar sands has taken flight once again in our own era, though this time disguised as a Green Energy solution.
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Ramblin’ Man, John Kerry Is a Figure of His Times (and That’s Not a Good Thing)
The secretary of state has been stumbling and bloviating from one crisis to the next, one debacle to another, surrounded by the well-crafted imagery of diplomatic effectiveness.
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Federal Court Decision Doesn’t Just Limit Abortion: It Creates a Crisis for Women’s Health Care in Texas
Andrea Flynn: This is nothing short of a crisis situation.
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Climate Deniers’ Strategy of Confusion
The fossil-fuel industry has invested billions of dollars in propaganda - funding phony ‘scientists’ and bankrolling politicians - to confuse the public about the threat from global warming.
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Republicans, Unhinged
The current crisis of American democracy centers on the craziness that has engulfed the Republican Party, once considered home of the responsible ‘adults’ but now more like an island …
Into Eternity: A Look at the Long-Term Storage of Nuclear Waste
Exploring the scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses.
ALEC “Is a Corporate Lobby Masquerading as a Charity“
ALEC describes itself as the largest voluntary group of state legislators in the country, but it is really a corporate-financed lobby that facilitates getting special interest legislation into the …