All News Articles for 2013-08-22
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As Fukushima Crisis Spirals, Expert Warns 'It's Much Worse' Than Claimed The trail of disasters continued on Thursday with the discovery of radiation "hotspots" Read more |
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'Outing Corporate Evil,' One City at a Time Nation-wide protests against devastating austerity policies and corporate greed made their first stop in Chicago Read more |
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Campaigners Deliver Message to Obama: 'Yes We Can... Ban Fracking' 'From California, to Colorado, Pennsylvania to New York, and everywhere in between, the public understands that fracking poses an immediate threat to our water, air, health and climate, and they’re fighting back.' Read more |
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Pressure Mounts for US to Cut Aid to Egyptian Military Despite the brutal killing of hundreds of peaceful protesters in Egypt last week, the United States government has still decided not to cut off aid to Egypt. The U.S. Air Force actually awarded a contract to General Electric to upgrade the Egyptian Air Force's fighter jets. The deal is worth nearly $14 million. And if the U.S. were to cut off aid to Egypt's military—as required by U.S. Read more |
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Caution Against Intervention Amid Syria Chemical Weapons Fervor As top military brass warns against strikes, policy experts say armed intervention is no fix for humanitarian crisis Read more |
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Flouting International Rejection of Weapons, US to Supply Saudi Arabia With Cluster Bombs "A tiny failure rate will still leave a large threat to civilians." Read more |
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Mixed Court Victory for Miranda as He Fights 'Frightening' Interrogations, Seizures High Court rules seized data can be used to investigate links to 'terrorism' but not 'criminal' charges Read more |
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US Economic Policy: Keeping Wages Flat Since 1979 Pro-worker policies have been under attack for a generation, but the last decade has been simply devastating, says report Read more |
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Declassified Document Reveals NSA Lies, Flimsy Oversight FISA court opinion shows "third instance in less than three years" NSA lied to court about its surveillance program Read more |
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Ellsberg: Manning Conviction the Beginning of a Police State The NSA surveillance of millions of emails and phone calls. The dogged pursuit of whistleblower Edward Snowden across the globe, regardless of the diplomatic fallout. And the sentencing of Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for giving a cache of government files to the website WikiLeaks. Read more |
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#FreeChelsea: Outpouring of Support Follows Manning Announcement 'As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me.' Read more |