All News Articles for 2012-07-27
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UN Arms Trade Treaty 'Full of Holes' As the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the global arms trade comes to a close today, activists say that the treaty doesn't go far enough and is full of holes while powerful gun interests in the U.S. are fighting back against regulation. Read more |
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Contaminated Inquiry: Prof with Money Ties to Industry Led Fracking Study Report: UTexas Study Spun the Facts and Misled the Public Read more |
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Ben & Jerry on the Catastrophic Impact of Citizens United Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's provide historical background to the controversial Supreme Court Citizens United ruling and lay out the catastrophic impact of giving corporations First Amendment rights. The first in a series of videos from burzt tv . Read more |
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Heat and Drought Turn Your Prized Lawn Deathly Brown? Paint It Green Be the envy of your neighborhood again Read more |
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Despite Pa. Victory, Anti-Fracking Campaigners Rally for Fight Ahead Despite a Pennsylvania court decision on Thursday that handed anti-fracking advocates at least a temporary victory by overturning a key section of a state law which banned municipalities from blocking gas-drilling "fracking" operations using local zoning ordinances, there will be no rest and relaxing for opponents of the oil and gas industry's drilling plans. Read more |
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Massive US Bunker Buster Bomb 'Ready to Go' 'The world's largest conventional bomb' Read more |
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Profiles of the Disenfranchised: Floridians as 'Voter Supression' Guinea Pigs Behind the political strategies of the GOP millions of real people will lose their right to vote. Here are just four of them. Read more |
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Protesters Blockade Mexico's Largest TV Station Thousands of protesters gathered on Thursday in Mexico City to blockade Mexico's largest television station, Televisa, over accusations of corruption and biased news coverage surrounding the country's July 1st presidential elections. Protesters, including student groups and unions, blockaded Televisa's offices in Mexico City, preventing employees from entering. Read more |
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Dow Chemical's Agent Orange Shadow Over Olympics HANOI, Vietnam - Agent Orange (AO), often called the ‘last legacy’ of the United States war in Vietnam (1955-1975), has popped up again thanks to its manufacturer Dow Chemical’s controversial sponsorship of the Olympic Games. Read more |
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The Porter Report: Israel, the Bulgaria Bombings and Iran Gareth Porter: Netanyahu accuses Iran, and Iran accuses Israel, of being behind terrorist attack Read more |
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Survey: "Climate Skeptics" More Likely to Embrace "Free Market" Ideology, Conspiracy Theories New study shows correlation between so-called "skeptics" and tendency towards "conspiracist ideation" Read more |