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No Nukes is Good Nukes

Seeded on Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:37 PM EDT (The Nation)

When it comes to the safety of nuclear power plants, I am biased.

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St. Patrick's Day and the Irish Famine

Seeded on Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:08 PM EDT (Institute for Public Accuracy)

"Irish folk memory refers to the Famine dead as having 'mouths stained green' — because their last meal was often grass.

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Human Rights Watch in Venezuela: Lies, Crimes and Cover-ups

Seeded on Thu Sep 9, 2010 8:31 PM EDT (Venezuelanalysis.com)

HRW linked to US government imperialism?

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How Has it Come to This?

Seeded on Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:36 AM EDT (Dahr Jamails Dispatches)

The scene is post-apocalyptic. Under a grey sky, two families play in the surf just off the beach in Grand Isle, Louisiana. To get to the beach, we walk past a red, plastic barrier fence that until very recently was there to keep people away from the oil-soaked area.

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Long-Awaited Cluster Bomb Ban Enters Into Force; US Straggles Behind

Seeded on Mon Aug 2, 2010 10:39 AM EDT ( IPS Inter Press Service)

"This new instrument is a major advance for the global disarmament and humanitarian agendas, and will help us to counter the widespread insecurity and suffering caused by these terrible weapons, particularly among civilians and children," noted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan War: "The President Lacks the Guts to Get Out"

Seeded on Mon Aug 2, 2010 10:23 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)

Retired U.S. army Colonel and historian Andrew Bacevich joins us for his first interview about his new book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. "The question demands to be asked: Who is more deserving of contempt?" Bacevich asks.

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A Debate on Geoengineering: Vandana Shiva vs. Gwynne Dyer

Seeded on Thu Jul 8, 2010 9:25 PM EDT (Democracy Now!)

Supporters of geoengineering have proposed radical ways to alter the planet to decrease the level of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Deep-sea mining adds to fears of marine pollution

Seeded on Fri Jul 2, 2010 11:31 PM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

Although no one knows exactly what damage a deep-sea mine would do to the marine ecosystem, experts have no doubt that removing a considerable part of the sea floor would cause a major disturbance.

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Starbucksgate: Obama's Lobbyist/Email Scandal

Seeded on Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:45 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

What happens in Starbucks stays in Starbucks. At least that's what the White House was banking on.

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America Detached from War

Seeded on Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:53 PM EDT (TomDispatch)

Bush's Pilotless Dream, Smoking Drones, and Other Strange Tales from the Crypt

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Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world

Seeded on Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:59 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism

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Part II: Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater Owner Erik Prince's Rumored Move to UAE and Obama Admin's Expansion of Special Forces Operations Abroad

Seeded on Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:55 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)

The Justice Department has told a federal appeals court there was more than enough untainted evidence to justify a trial for the five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad.

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A Zionist State of Mind, A Dreamscape Of Ghosts: One Jew's Hard Awakening

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:15 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise -- the …

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Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders for "360 Rotational Fire" Against Civilians in Iraq

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:00 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

McCord says the greater story is being overlooked, and that rather than blame individual soldiers, the Army itself should be examined, and its system of training soldiers.

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Gulf News; From Bad to Worse

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:25 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Your life has begun to change. It will never be the same again. This gulf disaster is changing everything. Call your legislators. Tell them that they are now on notice.

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Nick Turse, BP and the Pentagon's Dirty Little Secret

Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:41 PM EDT (TomDispatch)

...BP, evidently working hand-in-hand with the government, has put great effort into avoiding unnecessarily ugly photos, potentially negative stories, and unwanted information from the Gulf, by adopting methods of news control pioneered by the Pentagon in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Keith Olbermann And Chris Matthews Tear Apart Obama's Oval Office Speech

Seeded on Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:15 AM EDT (Mediaite)

Before President Barack Obama took to the airwaves to reassure Americans, most would have probably guessed that this kind of outrage was to be reserved for, well, the folks at Fox News. And, yes, Sarah Palin got to be the first to respond to his message over there.

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In 2008, BP Touted New Tech To Measure Oil Flow

Seeded on Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:55 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

For seven weeks, BP has insisted that measuring exactly how much oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is a daunting—perhaps impossible—task.

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Venice, La. Boat Capt. - BP blocking access and burning turtles in oil

Seeded on Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:38 AM EDT (YouTube)

BP is blocking access to rescuing turtles and is incinerating turtles in the oil. Interview by Catherine Craig

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Should You Boycott BP?

Seeded on Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:39 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

"The best option is for individual consumers to reassess their own consumption habits and figure out how can I use less, not how can I buy oil from a more moral oil company," said Slocum.

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"What's Wrong With This Picture?": Prosecuting Torture Protesters -- Not Perpetrators

Seeded on Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:43 AM EDT (IPA)

The group Witness Against Torture states that beginning Monday, 27 individuals "will face trial stemming from arrests at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 -- the date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp."

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Bill McKibben, Can Obama Seize the Energy Moment?

Seeded on Mon Jun 7, 2010 10:18 AM EDT (TomDispatch)

Tomgram: "On those relief wells, listen to David Rensink, president-elect of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and a veteran of oil industry offshore exploration: "If they get it on the first three or four shots, they'd be very lucky." That's not exactly surprisi …

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Meet the 19-Year-Old American Killed in the Flotilla Attack

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 10:11 AM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

"After the shooting and the first deaths, people put up white flags and signs in English and Hebrew. An Isreali [on the ship] asked the soldiers to take away the injured, but they did not and the injured died on the ship."

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BP Refused James Cameron's Cleanup Help

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 10:07 AM EDT (Truthdig)

Those Hollywood directors, always thinking they can call all the shots.

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Sarah Silverman Re-Brands Fox News as 'Racism Engine'

Seeded on Fri Jun 4, 2010 10:04 AM EDT (Truthdig)

Sarah Silverman's no shrinking violet, as she recently demonstrated once again by launching a direct hit on the Murdochian empire that is Fox News, calling the cable news channel "a 24-hour-a-day racism engine" in her startlingly named new book, "The Bedwetter: Stories of …

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