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Invading the Vaca Muerta: A Brief Summary of Recent Events
The Vaca Muerta Petroleum System in the western Argentina province of Neuquén is a large shale rock formation with major gas and oil resources.
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Inside the Corporatocracy: The 2013 Money-In-Politics Index
$400 million in Congressional campaign donations. Half the Washington workday spent in fundraising. 210 new SuperPACs. Here are some of the key numbers and trends tracking the influence of money in politics over the past year.
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Researchers Find 7,300-Mile Ring of Mercury Around Alberta Tar Sands in Canada
Government scientists are preparing to publish a report that finds levels of mercury up to 16 times higher around the tar sand operations, principally due to oil and gas companies' excavation and transportation of bitumen in the sands.
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Latest Bangladesh Protests Turn Violent Ahead of Boycotted Election
Violent clashes erupted in Bangladesh and a 21-year-old student was killed as opposition supporters took to the streets to protest against the general election next Sunday, which they are boycotting.
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What Pine Beetles' Destruction of Wyoming Forests Signals for Our Climate Future
The relationship between pine beetles and the woodlands they occupy has historically been one of elegant symbiosis. Now the beetles are wreaking havoc — and as long as temperatures keep rising, so will their populations in the West.
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Hedges: Overthrow the Speculators and Build Public Banks
We can wrest back control of our economy and our political system from corporate speculators with local movements that decentralize economic power through the creation of hundreds of publicly owned state, county and city banks.
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France's Top Court Approves 75% "Millionaire's Tax" on Employers
France's Constitutional Council gave the green light to tax companies paying annual salaries of more than a million euros, advancing President Francois Hollande's agenda to make corporations and the rich pay more.
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I Worked on the U.S. Drone Program and the Public Should Know What Really Goes On
Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue how it actually works.
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Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: Final Appeal to Supreme Court to Protect Crops from GMOs
Jim Gerritsen, an organic seed farmer on Wood Prairie Farm in Maine and president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association suing Monsanto, has spent the past 37 years protecting and maintaining the integrity of his seed stock.
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Thailand Protests Continue As Calls Grow for Regime Change
In a bid for what many here are calling vital democratic change, protesters by the thousands continued their push on to the streets of Thailand's capital, as nearly 2,000 anti-government demonstrators gathered Thursday amid violent police action.
