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Environment
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The Century-Long Challenge to Respond to Fukushima
Radiation continues to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi site into groundwater, threatening to contaminate the entire Pacific Ocean. The cleanup will require an unprecedented global effort.
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Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
“The most pernicious development is the incorporation of the black prophetic tradition into the Obama imperial project,” Cornel West tells Chris Hedges.
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The Hill to the Rescue on Syria? Don’t Hold Your Breath
In an announcement that surprised virtually everyone, the president told his countrymen and the world that he was putting on hold the much anticipated U.S. attack against Syria.
Top-Down Development: A Climate of Uncertainty Fuels Forced Displacement in Nepal’s Push for Road Expansions
A lack of knowledge certainly does not serve the people, whose interests apparently conflict with those of the developers.
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Could Online Giant Avaaz Help Us Stop the US Bombing of Syria?
The NAYS are multiplying, but the YAYS are pulling out their big guns. Could online organizing giant Avaaz help us stop the US bombing of Syria? Sign this petition …
Syrian Anarchist Challenges the Rebel/Regime Binary View of Resistance
Syrian anarchist activist Nader Atassi explores the non-fundamentalist and truly democratic resistance to the Assad regime.
Rachel Maddow | “No Good Options”: Radioactive Leaks From Japan’s Damaged Nuclear Plant Threaten the Pacific Ocean
Edwin Lyman, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, talks with Rachel Maddow about the alarming new radiation readings coming from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and …
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Obama’s Peace Prize
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Obama’s Bloody Red Line
In Secret AT&T Deal, US Drug Agents Given Access to 26 Years of Americans’ Phone Records
Under a secretive DEA program called the Hemisphere Project, the agency has access to records of every phone call transmitted via AT&T's infrastructure dating back to 1987.