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Environment
The First Day of the Tar Sands Action
The first day of the Tar Sands Action showed how beautiful and powerful a determined group of climate activists can be. 75 folks risked arrest at the White House …
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Egyptian Protesters Reject Israel’s “Regrets” Over Deadly Border Clash
Israel “deeply regrets” the deaths of Egyptian security forces who were killed this week in the pursuit of gunmen who'd carried out a deadly ambush on the Israeli side …
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Egypt and Israel Back Away From Sinai Crisis as Egyptian Ambassador is Withdrawn
Cairo - Diplomats scrambled to avert a crisis in relations between Egypt and Israel on Saturday, and the Israeli government issued a rare statement of regret for the killing …
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Eagle Deaths Investigated at LADWP Wind Power Generation Site
An investigation has been launched into the deaths of migratory birds including several federally protected golden eagles at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Pine Tree Wind …
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Bush III Takes His Stand in South Carolina
It was a hero America needed, a hero central to his time, a man whose personality might suggest contradiction and mysteries which could reach into the alienated circuits of …
Verizon Workers’ Strike “Most Important Labor Battle Going on Today”
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Juan, before we move on to our first story, the Verizon strike is extremely significant. You wrote about it in your column this week in the …
Deficits, Debts and Deepening Crisis
(Photo: photosteve101 / Flickr) Standard & Poor's downgrades US debt, stock markets gyrate around the world, Sarkozy and Merkel perform yet another empty summit, the Chinese and …
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Why is the US Waging War on Women Raped in War?
Mandatory sonograms, forced lectures by doctors, humiliating permission slips from abusive husbands, paternalistic opinions from Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, uneducated and patently stupid soundbites from Tea Partiers. That’s not …
The Obama Wars: Why Do We Tear Each Other Apart Over Whether the President Is a Failure or Success?
What, if anything, is the matter with Obama? This is a question that sharply divides progressives today, the central front on what has become known as the “Obama Wars.” …
Human Rights Watch: Abuses by All Sides Fueling Crisis in Somalia
A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses all sides in the Somali conflict of committing war crimes. The report, "'You Don't Know Who to Blame’: War Crimes in …