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San Francisco First City to Ban Plastic Shopping Bags SAN FRANCISCO - Paper or plastic? Not anymore in San Francisco. The city's Board of Supervisors approved groundbreaking legislation Tuesday to outlaw plastic checkout bags at large supermarkets in about six months and large chain pharmacies in about a year. Read more |
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Saudi King Slams 'Illegitimate Occupation' of Iraq Saudi King Abdullah, whose country is a close US ally, on Wednesday slammed the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of Iraq in an opening speech to the annual Arab summit in Riyadh. Read more |
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Inhofe Vows to Put Brakes on Gore's 'Live Earth' Concert at the Capitol WASHINGTON - Fresh from his face-to-face tussle with former Vice President Al Gore, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is vowing to stall Gore's hotly anticipated Capitol concert to draw attention to global warming. Read more |
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NATO's Potty Rules Shut out Afghans KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Under a bizarre policy that echoes the days of segregation in the United States, Afghans who work at the NATO base at Kandahar Airfield must use separate toilets marked "local nationals only."Several Afghans told The Globe and Mail the practice is insulting, but they are dependent on NATO for their livelihoods and reluctant to speak out. Read more |
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Aides to Bush Told not to Destroy E-Mails The Republican National Committee and chairman of George W. Bush's 2004 campaign have been ordered to preserve all e-mails related to White House business because they might be relevant to multiple congressional investigations. Read more |
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Republican Sees Iraq Pullout Passing then Vetoed WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush is likely to lose a first-round fight with Democrats over a critical funding bill that sets a date for American troops to withdraw from Iraq, the U.S. Senate's Republican leader said on Monday. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky predicted legislation similar to that already passed by the House of Representatives would eventually get through the Senate, which is more narrowly controlled by Democrats. Read more |
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Cheney Speech at BYU Causes Outcry At BYU -- in the heart of what has been called the reddest county in the nation -- the mere possibility of Vice President Dick Cheney coming to campus is getting some blue blood boiling. Read more |
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Gonzales Aide to Invoke the Fifth in Testimony WASHINGTON - A key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than answer lawmakers' questions about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, her lawyer said Monday. The decision by Monica Goodling to protect herself against self-incrimination marks the first instance in which a Bush administration appointee involved in the probe has signaled concerns about possible criminal repercussions. Goodling, 33, has taken leave from her job as counsel to the attorney general and as the Justice Department's liaison to the White House. Read more |
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Film on "Radical Islam" Tied to Pro-Israel Groups WASHINGTON - A controversial documentary on the threat of radical Islam, promoted by the two most-watched U.S. cable news networks, was marketed and supported in part by self-described "pro-Israel" groups, according to an IPS investigation. Read more |
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Global Warming Study Warns of Vanishing Climates By the end of the century up to two fifths of the land surface of the Earth will have a hotter climate unlike anything that currently exists, according to a study that predicts the effects of global warming on local and regional climates. Read more |
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French Scientists Rebut U.S., Muslim Creationism With creationism now coming in Christian and Muslim versions, scientists, teachers and theologians in France are debating ways to counteract what they see as growing religious attacks on science. Bible-based criticism of evolution, once limited to Protestant fundamentalists in the United States, has become an issue in France now that Pope Benedict and some leading Catholic theologians have criticized the neo-Darwinist view of creation. Read more |
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Three Fired U.S. Attorneys Balked At Seeking Death Penalty Prosecutors in California, Michigan and Arizona Share a Reluctance to Pursue The Ultimate Punishment. Read more |
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Fighting For Air: Frontline of War on Global Warming Progress Comes at a High Price For China and India, But There Are Grounds For Hope Read more |
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Greens Hail Landmark Victory In Fight To Save Amazon Rainforests One of the world's largest agribusiness giants was forced to close a soy export terminal in Brazil's Amazon region this weekend, marking a major victory for environmentalists who have argued for years that the plant was built illegally and became a significant cause of rainforest depletion. Brazilian police and environmental officers swooped on the Cargill terminal in Santarem, a deep-water port in the lower Amazon about 850 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. They said they met no resistance as they set about closing operations. Read more |
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Senate GOP Says No to Al Gore-Global Warming Concert at Capitol You probably didn't notice it (since readers of The Crypt have actual lives), but late Friday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to get Senate Republicans to allow former Vice President Al Gore to stage a global warming concert on Capitol grounds. But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected to Reid's request, and the resolution authorizing the concert, for now, remains stuck in the Rules and Administration Committee. Read more |
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City Asks Court Not to Unseal Police Spy Files Lawyers for the city, responding to a request to unseal records of police surveillance leading up to the 2004 Republican convention in New York, say that the documents should remain secret because the news media will "fixate upon and sensationalize them," hurting the city's ability to defend itself in lawsuits over mass arrests. In papers filed in federal court last week, the city's lawyers also say that the documents could be "misinterpreted" because they were not intended for the public. Read more |
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We Failed, Says Pro-War Iraqi Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi exile under Saddam and a key intellectual inspiration for the US policy of 'regime change' in Iraq, has admitted he failed to foresee the consequences for his country of the invasion four years ago. Read more |
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Cheney: Early Iraq Pullout Won't Be Allowed US Vice President Dick Cheney has assured political allies that an early withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would not be allowed, despite efforts by Congress to impose a deadline on US combat operations there. Read more |
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Actor Penn, Rep. Lee Appear at Town Hall Meeting on Iraq War Hundreds gather in Oakland to discuss how to get U.S. troops home OAKLAND -- Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn was the star attraction at a town hall meeting today in Oakland, where hundreds of people gathered to denounce the war in Iraq and call for an immediate withdrawal of American troops. Read more |
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And They Call It Peace: Inside Iraq, Four Years On In a personal diary to mark the fourth anniversary of the war, our award-winning correspondent Patrick Cockburn journeys through a country riven with violence and chaos Sunday 18 March. Khanaqin Read more |
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NYC City Police Spied Broadly Before GOP Convention For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews. From Albuquerque to Montreal, San Francisco to Miami, undercover New York police officers attended meetings of political groups, posing as sympathizers or fellow activists, the records show. Read more |
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Justice Department Tugged to the Right Under Bush, the department has been tainted by politics, many say. Read more |
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Activists Remember a Different Romney Advocates for gay and abortion rights and the environment say the GOP candidate misled them on his positions. Read more |
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Iraq Vote Angers Anti-War Wing WASHINGTON, DC- House Democrats voted Friday to continue paying for the war in Iraq but set deadlines for withdrawal. The $124 billion spending bill eked by on a near party line vote of 218 to 212 with no "ayes" to spare. Read more |
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Iraqi Medical Crisis as Doctors Flee For the people of Iraq, it may be the ultimate nightmare. The ordeal continues for victims of Iraq's violence when they are taken to hospital. Most of the best medical staff have left after being targeted by insurgents. Many have fled the country just in the last few months. Read more |
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Documents Show Gonzales Approved Firings WASHINGTON -- Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he was not involved in any discussions about the impending dismissals of U.S. attorneys. On Friday night, however, the Justice Department revealed Gonzales' participation in a Nov. 27 meeting where such plans were discussed. Read more |
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Play About Iraq War Divides a Connecticut School WILTON, Conn. — Student productions at Wilton High School range from splashy musicals like last year's "West Side Story," performed in the state-of-the-art, $10 million auditorium, to weightier works like Arthur Miller's "Crucible," on stage last fall in the school's smaller theater. Read more |
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Worldwide, Communities Demand Access to Water UNITED NATIONS - Holding scores of rallies and sit-ins around world, environmental and community groups Thursday made fresh calls for drastic actions to protect the world's rivers and other water resources from the devastating impact of global warming, pollution, and toxic waste. Read more |
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Iran & Iraq: US and UK Fail to Find Smoking Gun Although British and US military and diplomats often complain of Iranian support for insurgents in Iraq, there is no "smoking gun" to prove it, a senior British officer in Basra admitted yesterday. Lt Col Justin Maciejewski said he could not prove Iranian interference in the southern Iraqi city, where UK troops come under regular mortar and rocket attack. But community leaders had told him Iranian agents were paying Iraqis $500 a month (£254) to carry out attacks. Read more |
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New U.S. Attorneys Seem to Have Partisan Records WASHINGTON - Under President Bush, the Justice Department has backed laws that narrow minority voting rights and pressed U.S. attorneys to investigate voter fraud - policies that critics say have been intended to suppress Democratic votes. Bush, his deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, and other Republican political advisers have highlighted voting rights issues and what Rove has called the "growing problem" of election fraud by Democrats since Bush took power in the tumultuous election of 2000, a race ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more |
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MoveOn Moves In with Pelosi The netroots group's support proved crucial to passage of the Democrats' Iraq spending plan. But antiwar activists say MoveOn has been co-opted by its access to power. Read more |
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Police Tell Anti-War Protesters to Take Down 'Camp Pelosi' Anti-war protesters in their 11th day of a round-the-clock vigil in front of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's Pacific Heights home were ordered by San Francisco police Thursday night to remove protest signs, banners and canopies that adorned what they called Camp Pelosi. Read more |
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Global Shipping Must Curb 'Unchecked' Pollution: Study Ocean-going vessels now belch out more of the major air pollutant sulfur dioxide than all of the world's cars, trucks and buses combined, according to a study released Thursday. The group behind the report, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), also said the shipping industry... Read more |
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California Sues Navy Over Use of Sonar A commission acts after rejection of its bid to further protect sea mammals. A vice admiral says current precautions are enough. Read more |
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Antarctic Melting May be Speeding Up HOBART (Australia) - Rising sea levels and melting polar ice-sheets are at upper limits of projections, leaving some human population centers already unable to cope, top world scientists say as they analyze latest satellite data. Read more |
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Congressman Trades Iraq Vote for Spinach SAN FRANCISCO - A liberal Congressman who represents California's picturesque central coast region is under fire for trading his vote on the Iraq war for spinach. Rep. Sam Farr, a Democrat from the hippy college town of Santa Cruz, originally voted against the Iraq war and has voted against proposals to fund it each of the last four years. This time, though, he's singing a different tune -- and critics say his change of heart has more to do with the spinach industry than anything else. Read more |
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U.S. Nukes Plan Viewed as Provocative WASHINGTON - The announcement earlier this month that the United States will pursue the design and construction of new nuclear weapons has not been warmly embraced by the rest of the world. Read more |
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US Has the Most Prisoners in the World WASHINGTON - Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts. A U.S. Justice Department report released... Read more |
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Why Air Con is Ruining Our Environment Our love of air con is making the world even hotter Read more |
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What Not to Eat: the Truth about Food Low-fat is good, butter is bad; buy free-range, not battery; tofu's terrific, lard's a killer... Messages about what we should and shouldn't eat bombard us on a daily basis. So what are we to believe? And what about the cost to the planet? Rose Prince unravels the myths and explains what we need to... Read more |
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Rwanda Survivors Say Hollywood Has Got It Wrong Three films in two years about Rwanda's genocide have shocked Western audiences with the scale and savagery of the slaughter, but many survivors in the tiny central African nation are unimpressed. They say the big-screen depictions of the carnage, when about 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate... Read more |
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Oakland Nears Final Payouts for Protesters Hurt by Police OAKLAND, California - A clash between the police and antiwar protesters here nearly three years ago will cost the City of Oakland more than $2 million, including dozens of payouts to people injured when officers fired wooden dowels, bean bags and rubber pellets. The Oakland City Council is scheduled Tuesday to approve the final payments related to the incident, which was the most violent of many protests nationwide in the early weeks of the Iraq war. At least 58 people were injured, including nine longshoremen who were caught in the crossfire on their way to work. Read more |
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Hillary Clinton Feels Heat Over Wal-Mart Ties NEW YORK -- With retailer Wal-Martunder fire for its labor and healthcare policies, one Democrat with ties to the company, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has started feeling her share of the political heat. Clinton served on Wal-Mart's board of directors for six years when her husband was governor... Read more |
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More Americans Favor Impeaching Bush, Poll Says Today's topic: Domestic spying Read more |
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President Bush's "Brownie" Quote Wins Award LOS ANGELES - Call it the wrong phrase at the wrong time but "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" was named on Thursday as U.S. President George W. Bush's most memorable phrase of 2005. The ill-timed praise of a now disgraced agency head became a national punch line for countless jokes and pointed... Read more |
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The Man Who Sold the War The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand. On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer... Read more |
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How Kucinich Found Love On May 4, Elizabeth Harper walked with her boss into Dennis Kucinich's Capitol Hill office for a meeting and immediately noticed three things. In the reception area, she saw a visiting nun in white robes. In his inner office sat a shelf bearing an illustration depicting "light consciousness" and a... Read more |
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The Deadliness Below Weapons of mass destruction thrown into the sea years ago present danger now - and the Army doesn't know where they all are Read more |
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Bush: God Told Me to Invade Iraq President 'revealed reasons for war in private meeting' Read more |
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Old-Line Families Escape Worst of Flood And Plot the Future NEW ORLEANS - On a sultry morning earlier this week, Ashton O'Dwyer stepped out of his home on this city's grandest street and made a beeline for his neighbor's pool. Wearing nothing but a pair of blue swim trunks and carrying two milk jugs, he drew enough pool water to flush the toilet in his home... Read more |
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Stadium Hurricane Refuge Like a 'Concentration Camp' Dirty, fearful and exhausted, they pressed their faces against the metal gates, begging and pleading for the chance to board a bus and get away from a refuge that had become a nightmare. After five days in the stinking, crowded and sweltering confines of the New Orleans Superdome, the thousands of... Read more |
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US Selling More Weapons to Undemocratic Regimes That Support 'War on Terror' The United States has ramped up arms sales to some of the world's most repressive and undemocratic regimes in a misguided attempt to bolster counter-terrorism efforts since the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. soil, says a new report from leading arms trade researchers. The report, from the Arms Trade... Read more |
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Galloway: The Man Who Took on America How did one maverick MP manage to outgun a committee of senior US politicians so successfully? And did he make any lasting impact? Read more |
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1945 Tokyo Firebombing Left Legacy of Terror, Pain TOKYO -- For decades, Teruo Kanoh never revealed the terror locked in his heart the night in 1945 when American bombs turned Tokyo into a raging fireball. Then, three years ago, he slowly began releasing his demons in oil and watercolor. In his vivid, unsparing paintings, U.S. warplanes shower the... Read more |
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As Union Nears Win, Wal-Mart Closes Store NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it will close one of its Canadian stores, just as some 200 workers at the location are near winning the first-ever union contract from the world's largest retailer. Wal-Mart said it was shuttering the store in Jonquiere, Quebec, in response to unreasonable... Read more |
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Western German Streets Fill Up as Carnival Pokes Fun at Bush COLOGNE, Germany -- Hundreds of thousands of Germans, many dressed as jesters or fools, have flooded Rhineland streets for the traditional "Rose Monday" procession, the highlight of the Catholic carnival season. In Cologne, where the biggest parade got underway at 11 minutes to 11:00, around 10,000... Read more |
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Scottie & Me: February 1, 2005 White House Press Briefing with Scott McClellan Read more |
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Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who... Read more |
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Two Years Before 9/11, Candidate Bush was Already Talking Privately About Attacking Iraq, According to His Former Ghost Writer HOUSTON -- Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned... Read more |
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Consumption of Resources Outstripping Planet's Ability to Cope GENEVA - People are plundering the world's resources at a pace that outstrips the planet's capacity to sustain life, the environmental group WWF said Thursday. In its regular Living Planet Report , the World Wide Fund for Nature said humans currently consume 20 percent more natural resources than... Read more |
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So, Did Saddam Hussein Try to Kill Bush's Dad? WASHINGTON - Now that President George W. Bush's allegations about former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda and ambitious weapons programs have been thoroughly discredited, another outstanding charge remains to be resolved. During a campaign speech in September 2002, Bush cited a... Read more |
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Women Rage Against 'Rape' in Northeast India IMPHAL (Manipur), - After torching government buildings and parading naked to protest the suspected custodial rape and killing of a woman by federal soldiers, women in Manipur vow to intensify their fight against frequent atrocities in the restive northeast Indian state. An indefinite curfew is in... Read more |
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Which are the Most Popular Progressive Websites? Our Readers Asked... Read more |
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'Blood Diamonds' Still Sold by U.S. Retailers WASHINGTON, D.C. - Major U.S. and international retailers that sell diamond jewelry are failing to follow through on promises to prevent the trade in so-called 'conflict diamonds' that have fueled civil war and violence in several African nations, according to a new report released at this week's... Read more |
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Death Leaves Family with Grief, Questions Daughter who left college to join Army killed in Iraq attack Read more |
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Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water LONDON - It made for great headlines, but the fact that the UK version of Coca-Cola's Dasani brand bottled water comes out of the London public supply should hardly have come as a surprise. "Coke's in hot water," "Eau dear" and "The real sting" were three good examples of the newspaper headline... Read more |
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US Companies Moving More Jobs Overseas NEW YORK - U.S. corporations are picking up the pace in shifting well-paid technology jobs to India, China and other low-cost centers, but they are keeping quiet for fear of a backlash, industry professionals said. Morgan Stanley estimates the number of U.S. jobs outsourced to India will double to... Read more |
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Fight to the Death: The Iraqis Who Hated Saddam Hate the Americans More In Khaldiyah, it's a war of nerves. A three-meter-deep crater marks the explosion point of a careering car bomb that the local police knew was inevitable. Just across and down a highway that cuts through this small town west of Baghdad is the home of a man the US suspects could help bring an end to... Read more |
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FTAA Protests: Amnesty Says Miami Police May Have Broken UN Laws MIAMI - Police in Miami may have violated various international laws and covenants on civil rights and use of force when they crushed protests against a free trade meeting last month, rights group Amnesty International said. In a letter to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, dated Dec. 16 and made public on... Read more |
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Rumsfeld's '84 Visit was to Reassure Iraqis Trip Followed Criticism Of Chemical Arms' Use Read more |
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Rights, Liberties Groups Hail Court Defeats for Bush Anti-Terror War U.S. civil liberties and human rights groups Thursday hailed the one-two punch delivered by two federal appeals courts against the Bush administration's refusal to recognize basic due-process rights of alleged U.S. and foreign detainees held as "enemy combatants" in Washington's "war on terrorism... Read more |
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Battle Rages with Ecuador Indians Over Jungle Oil QUITO - In a steamy jungle of winding laurel trees and sprawling palms, a battle is raging between Ecuadorean Indians trying to protect land rights and oil companies who want to drill in the Amazon. In the northern Amazon, Indians are suing a U.S. oil company over environmental damage they say... Read more |
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Foes Say Bush Plan Would Create 'Debating Society Over Science' Health, environmental rules could be buried in peer reviews, critics fear Read more |
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Is the Search for WMDs Over? After Eight Months with No Discoveries, Mission Chief Quits Read more |
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Earth Warming at Faster Pace, Say Top Science Group's Leaders Statement by American Geophysical Union's council warns temperature change is real and human-caused Read more |
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Despite the Hype, Bottled Water is Neither Cleaner nor Greener than Tap Water "You drink tap water? Are you crazy?" asks a 21-year-old radio producer from the Chicago area. "I only drink bottled water." In a trendy nightclub in New York City, the bartender tells guests they can only be served bottled water, which costs $5 for each tiny half-pint container. One outraged... Read more |
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Scottie & Me: October 14, 2003 White House Press Briefing with Scott McClellan Read more |
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Scottie & Me: October 2, 2003 White House Press Briefing with Scott McClellan Read more |
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Scottie & Me: September 2, 2003 White House Press Briefing with Scott McClellan Read more |
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Voting Machine Controversy COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has... Read more |
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Bush 'Bundlers' Take Fundraising to New Level As chairman, president and chief executive of Safeway Inc., the world's 11th-largest grocery chain, Steven Burd is the nexus of a wide network of subordinates and suppliers, as well as friends in corporate suites. And that is why he will play a critical role in President Bush's effort to raise the... Read more |
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Ari & I: May 27, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: May 14, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Rich Nations Continue to Wield Power in Global Bodies WASHINGTON - From the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the United Nations, to Interpol and the World Health Organization (WHO), dozens of international agencies now work to regulate world trade, telecommunications, transportation, labor,... Read more |
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Youths Shouldn't Be Tried As Adults, Study Says WASHINGTON -- Every state allows children under 16 to be tried as adults, but new research indicates that many cannot understand their situations well enough to aid their defense. The private MacArthur Foundation study released today says that many children under 16 had as much difficulty grasping... Read more |
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Ari & I: March 3, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: February 26, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: February 6, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: January 30, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: January 27, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: January 21, 2003 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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As War Drums Grow, Peace Activist Stands Her Ground The word courage often is used to describe an act of valor on a battlefield. But the word can also apply to a person standing up for peace. So it was one Wednesday afternoon last summer when Aase Loescher arrived at the weekly peace vigil at the Monroe County Courthouse. No one else showed up that... Read more |
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Ari & I: December 17, 2002 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: December 5, 2002 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: October 15, 2002 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: October 9, 2002 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: September 19, 2002 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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How Did Iraq Get Its Weapons? We Sold Them THE US and Britain sold Saddam Hussein the technology and materials Iraq needed to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban affairs -- which oversees American exports policy -- reveal that the US, under... Read more |
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Ari & I: July 30, 2002 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |
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Ari & I: May 21, 2002 Russell Mokhiber questions White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Read more |