All News Articles for 2012-04-22
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Chicago Continues Beefing Up 'Security' for NATO Summit While Protesters Still in Dark ACLU, protesters still waiting for protest area information Read more |
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UN to Begin Contentious Investigation Into Native American Rights The United Nations is set to embark on an investigation on Monday into the rights of Native Americans in the United States for the first time. James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, will lead the investigation. Read more |
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New Climate Threat as Methane Rises from Cracks in Arctic Ice More methane emissions lead to more warming, and more warming leads to more methane emissions Read more |
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Iran: We're Building a Copy of Captured U.S. Drone Iranian officials have said today that they have begun building a copy of a U.S. drone that was downed by Iranian forces last year. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said, "There is almost no part hidden to us in this aircraft. We recovered part of the data that had been erased. There were many codes and characters. But we deciphered them by the grace of God." The general went on to describe what he said were details of the drone's flight history. * * * Read more |
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Is Tar Sands Crude Coming to New England? While much attention has been paid to the possibility of Canada's tar sands crude coming to the U.S. via the Keystone XL pipeline, some signs indicate that Canada is quietly pushing for the crude to flow to the U.S. through a Montreal - Portland, Maine pipeline, according to Foster's Daily Democrat. Read more |