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Budget Control Act Military Cuts Will Cover the Social Security Shortfall
A key reason that it's relatively easy to scaremonger about predictions regarding Social Security's finances decades in the future is that the language often used to talk about Social …
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Loving Earth: Developing a “Deeply Caring Reciprocal Partnership“
To save the Earth, we must fall in love with her, writes Robert Koehler, taking his inspiration from the work of Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics. Koehler and Eisenstein say that …
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Home Energy Program in Sonoma a Beacon for Broken National Effort
A judge forces the federal agency that squashed the PACE home energy program to draft rules and start over. At Rod Stevenson's sprawling country home in Santa Rosa, Calif., …
AP: US Soldiers Promised Massacre, Including Children, Days Before Bales’ Alleged Rampage
In a striking omission to mainstream coverage of the Afghan massacre which took the lives of 17 Afghans including many children, one as young as two, the AP has …
Occupy the DOJ: Activists Protest Injustice of Criminal Justice System
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Brazilian Mining Giant under Fire for Deaths, Environmental Damage
Rio de Janeiro - Social movements from several countries accused Brazil's Vale, the world's second largest mining company, of causing serious environmental and social damage, as well as the …
Evidence Implicates Top BP Executives
Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up—which included falsifying a report to the Securities …
The BP Disaster, Two Years Later
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ALEC’s Vision of Pre-Empting EPA Coal Ash Regulations Passes the House
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment on April 18 to the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012 (HR 4348) that would effectively pre-empt the Environmental Protection Agency …
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MSNBC: Evidence of Multiple Shooters, Night Raid in Sergeant Bales Case
The first story was shaky from the start, that Sgt. Robert Bales “sneaked” off a combat outpost into hostile, landmined territory in the middle of the night, walked north …