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Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy! (Greenpeace)
Greenpeace USA explains: Big Coal plans to get around Environmental Protection Agency restrictions on toxic emissions by just shipping the coal abroad to countries that […]
Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo
NBC’s Michael Isikoff has revealed the text of a white paper composed for Congress by the Department of Justice that sheds light on the legal […]
Paranoia Strikes Deep: A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past. In its wake, President Obama […]
Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)
Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” reports on the leaked drone memo authorizing killing of American citizens abroad at the president’s order: The blurb for the show: […]
Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls’ Education
Malala Yousafzai has released two videos in the past few days, one before her surgery to put a plate in her skull, and after she […]
US Covert Drone War in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia – Jan. Update (Woods et al.)
Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Yemen was hit by the highest number of airstrikes in […]
Iran President accuses Speaker of Parliament of Corruption, as Labor Minister is Impeached
With the Iranian presidential elections only 5 months away, Iranian politics is heating up. Outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday accused the family of the […]
Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Natural Gas Platform Sinks
A $40 million platform unit in the Persian Gulf designed to increase Iran’s natural gas production sank last week. It was built with Iranian government […]
Will a declining America Start Having to Obey the same Rules as Everybody Else? (Chomsky)
Noam Chomsky writes at Tomdispatch.com: [This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges […]
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