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The Bush Administration's CIA Smear Campaign (Juan Cole)
It is shocking to discover that the Bush White House would stoop to suborning the CIA to try to discredit a critical blogger like me June 17, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Eminent national ...
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IMF cuts U.S. growth forecast, warns of crisis (Luciana Lopez)
Workers build new homes on a hilltop in Carlsbad, California, May 27, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake June 17, 2011 -- SAO PAULO (Reuters) -- The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for ...
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Powerful cosmic blast as black hole shreds star (Jennifer Carpenter)
Infalling star shown in an artist's conception; 10% of its mass is turned into energy and radiated as X-rays June 16, 2011 (BBC) -- Astronomers have spied a star's swan song as it is shredded by a ...
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Life expectancy declining in many parts of US (Patrick Martin)
June 16, 2011 (WSWS) -- Average life expectancy is falling in many parts of the United States and for many demographic groups, most notably women, according to a study being published Wednesday in ...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Deactualized (Ted Rall)
Oct. 6th: Will Tahrir Square Come to Washington? June 16, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- I used to work for Democratic candidates. I was a campus activist. I marched in protests. But, in the ...
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The Big Fukushima Lie Flies High (Karl Grossman)
June 16, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The global nuclear industry and its allies in government are making a desperate effort to cover up the consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. ...
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Are We on the Brink of Burying Nuke Power Forever? (Harvey Wasserman)
June 16, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- This may be the moment history has turned definitively against atomic energy. To be sure: we are still required to fight hard to bury reactor loan guarantees in ...
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Extreme Weather Events Unprecedented, Scientists Say (Randolph E. Schmid)
June 16, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tornadoes, floods, wildfires, snowmelt, thunderstorms, drought -- for Americans, it was a spring to remember. Government weather researchers said yesterday that, ...
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Fukushima: It's Much Worse Than You Think (Dahr Jamail)
Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public June 16, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- "Fukushima is the biggest industrial ...
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How the West Was Lost: The American West in Flames (Chip Ward)
June 16, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- Arizona is burning. Texas, too. New Mexico is next. If you need a grim reminder that an already arid West is burning up and blowing away, here it is. As I write ...
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The End of Capitalism and the Wellsprings of Radical Hope (Eugene McCarraher)
June 8, 2011 (The Nation) -- Why should we want to reinvent capitalism? Rather than reinvent it, we should remind ourselves why capitalism is so pernicious. We could start by stating the obvious ...
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