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Federal Appeals Court Upholds EPA Efforts on Mountaintop Removal
Court rejects coal industry's challenge to Obama Administration's effort to rein in mountaintop removal mining.
Khamenei Remarks Show Both Sides Maneuver on Enrichment
Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei's comments on the nuclear talks Monday provided an unusual glimpse of diplomatic maneuvering by the US-led coalition of five nuclear powers and Germany.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Oil Industry Is Cashing in on Subsidies, and More
The fossil fuel industry is cashing in on government welfare, and more.
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The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s War: On Israel, Ukraine and Truth
As advanced societies are de-politicized, the changes are both subtle and spectacular.
NSA and FBI Targeting Muslim American Leaders
This would not be the first time the FBI has targeted groups based on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion.
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US Moves to Address Chronic “Teacher Equity” Problem
The US government has moved to tackle longstanding patterns of inequitable teacher quality, specifically in terms of how low quality teachers tend to be assigned to poor and marginalized …
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GDP and the Public Sector
The reality is that the government and the economy are so thoroughly integrated it is impossible to separate the two.
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Triumph for Citizens in Florida as Hughes Oil Company Drops Fracking Project
But without a moratorium on fracking, Florida is still not safe from the fracking industry.
Fracking Is Causing an Earthquake Boom in Oklahoma
A study published last week in the journal Science adds more detail to the already widely acknowledged finding that fracking leads to earthquakes.
Security, Refugees and Profit at the US Border
As record numbers of child migrants from Central America arrive at the US-Mexico border, journalist Todd Miller says the crisis should be a treated as a refugee issue, not …