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Senate Votes to End Advantages for "Too Big to Fail" Banks
From the Dept. of Good News: The Senate actually did something useful.
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Shuttered: How America is Selling Out its Schools
Public schools across America are being liquidated by the dozens, with 54 announced recently in Chicago, 23 in Philadelphia and 22 in New York.
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Exposed: Frackademics at USC Release "Powering California" Study
Frackademia—shorthand for bogus science, economics and research results paid for by the oil and gas industry—has struck again in California, this time touting the future of Monterey's shale deposits.
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Revealed: Before War, CIA and MI6 Knew Iraq had No WMD
Fresh evidence aired on THE BBC reveals that the CIA and MI6 were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction.
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Barack Romney: The Second-Term Scorecard So Far
If Mitt Romney had prevailed last November, would things really be that much worse than they already are? Since Obama's re-election 19 weeks ago, big banks, fossil fuels and drone warfare have been the favorites.
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In Zurich, and Across Europe, Squatter Communities Are Strengthening
Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a march to protest their imminent eviction.
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Blondes on War: The Screen Version of the CIA
Based on today's beautiful CIA women triumphing on TV and film, it seems that elite spies don’t inhabit the same universe with enlisted women who get raped just for being military.
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Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?
Seventy percent of Japan's population wants a nuclear-free future but the government is ignoring their demands, even as experts give cleanup operations at Fukushima a centuries-long timetable.
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Fracking Industry Propaganda Battles Science in Obama's New Energy Pick
President Obama's appointment of Dr. Ernest Moniz to head the U.S. Energy Department is a literal payoff to the hydrofracking industry, which has funneled millions into Moniz's Energy Initiative research at MIT.
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Of Sequester, Squander, and How Congress Sold Out the People
The sequester is simply more proof that our government is putting bank bailouts, military contracts and corporate tax loopholes above the needs of their constituents.
