All News Articles for 2013-06-04
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US Delays While 65 Other Countries Sign 1st Global Arms Trade Treaty More than 65 countries have signed the first-ever treaty regulating the global arms trade. The United States, which is the world’s top arms exporter, has delayed signing it after being accused of weakening the treaty before its approval last month. Read more |
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Ending the Global "Race to the Bottom" Read more |
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Two Afghans Killed at Protest While Demanding Arrest of US Soldiers for Torture, Murder Villagers block major highway as more discovered bodies fuel anger in Wardack province Read more |
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"FrackNation": Koch Industries and the Ties That Bind Part Two: "FrackNation" Deploys Tobacco Playbook in Response to "Gasland 2" Read more |
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Monsanto Still Testing Genetically Modified Wheat in Two States While last week's announcement of rogue GM wheat in Oregon was framed as an anomoly, Monsanto has current field testing of GM wheat in two states Read more |
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'We Are Movement, Not a Moment': North Carolina Peaceful Uprising Continues 'If you thought you had a fight a month ago, you ain't seen nothing yet,' say protest leaders as 151 arrested Read more |
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Victory for Press Freedom: Public Gains Manning Trial Transcripts Despite gov't best efforts Manning trial transcripts will be published Read more |
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Turkey, 62 Tons of Tear Gas, and the Interests of Power It burns both eyes and lungs, but the history of tear gas ultimately tells a deeper story Read more |
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Massive Flooding Grips Central Europe At least a dozen people are dead as floods continue to damage central Europe. Read more |
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Victory: Connecticut Becomes First State to Require GMO Labeling Food safety advocates hope Connecticut's move sparks nationwide momentum for labeling of genetically modified foods Read more |
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Manning Trial Day 2: Live Coverage The second day of Pfc. Bradley Manning's trial commenced Tuesday. Three of the witnesses scheduled to testify against the U.S. war crimes whistleblower include two Army Computer Crimes Investigative Unit agents involved in forensic examinations of evidence. Adrian Lamo, the known hacker turned government informant who turned Manning into federal authorities, will also testify today. Read more |
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Sanjay Basu Explains Why Austerity Kills It stands to reason that people can suffer stress in economically hard times but do economically hard times in and of themselves kill people? Sanjay Basu, one of the the co-authors of ‘The Body Economic, Why Austerity Kills,’ argues that it is the austerity programs which cause more deaths. Read more |
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As UN Warns of 'Human Costs,' US Sends More Weapons to Syria Border Despite a warning in a new UN report on Syria saying "there is a human cost to the increased availability of weapons" inside the war torn country, the US is sending more military hardware into the region by stationing Patriot missile batteries and F-16 fighter jets in neighboring Jordan. Though the Pentagon says the weapons are being sent for military exercises, indications were also made that the weapons could remain for an extended period. As Al-Jazeera reports : Read more |
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Frank Lautenberg, the Last of the New Deal Liberals Frank Lautenberg, the son of a Paterson, New Jersey, silk mill worker and the last World War II veteran serving in the US Senate, took his cues from another political time: a time when liberals were bold and unapologetic, a time when it was understood that government could and should do great things. Read more |
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Gas Industry Deploys Dirty Tricks to Undermine 'Gasland 2' Part I: "FrackNation" Deploys Tobacco Playbook in Response to "Gasland 2" Read more |