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Qaddafi Forces Spill Into Tunisia as He Calls for Ceasefire With NATO
(Photo: Mourad D / Flickr) Tunis, Tunisia - The two-day battle for a key Libyan border post spilled into Tunisia on Friday as Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces, …
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Swing-State Ohio at Heart of Union Rights Battle
North Canton, Ohio - In this former company town, an aging smokestack marked with “Hoover” in tall white letters stands like a tombstone over the union jobs lost when …
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President Obama Makes a Fair Trial of Bradley Manning Impossible By Declaring Him Guilty
The credibility of the military justice system is being undermined by the prosecution of Bradley Manning. His abusive punishment without trial violates his due process rights; his harsh treatment …
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Birthers
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News in Brief: Japan Enforces Mandatory Evacuation Near Nuclear Plant, and More
Japan Enforces Mandatory Evacuation Near Nuclear Plant
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GOP
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The Conservabot Returns
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Fracking Blowout Causes Massive Spill in Pennsylvania
Thousands of gallons of potentially toxic hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” liquids spilled across pastures and into a stream in rural Pennsylvania early this morning, after a natural gas well …
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Gassy Geezer Pushes Fossil Fuel
This weekend, as 10,000 energetic, bright, young people are converging on Washington, DC, for PowerShift 2011, a geezer* is waging an all-out assault on their future. Eighty-two-year-old Texas fossil-fuel-pushing …
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How Many Chernobyls Before We Get It?
A stenciled figure by the elevators in a sixteen story residential building facing the central square of Pripyat, a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern …